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Highlights
- In this incisive examination of our national security policy, Michael Klare suggests that the Pentagon in effect established a new class of enemies when the Cold War came to an -unpredictable and hostile states in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
- About the Author: Michael Klare is the author of books including Resource Wars, Blood and Oil, Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet and The Race for What's Left.
- 292 Pages
- Political Science, International Relations
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Book Synopsis
In this incisive examination of our national security policy, Michael Klare suggests that the Pentagon in effect established a new class of enemies when the Cold War came to an -unpredictable and hostile states in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Klare argues that the containment of these rising Third World powers-Iraq, Iran, Libya, and North Korea, especially-became the centerpiece of American military policy and the justification for near-Cold War levels of military sping.
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In Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws, Michael Klare takes on the great post-Cold War dilemma: with the collapse of the Soviet Union, What should U.S. national security strategy be and what, more recently, has it become?Review Quotes
"[Klare's] book is a needed reminder that all is not well in the Pentagon." --Zachary Karabell, The Boston Globe
About the Author
Michael Klare is the author of books including Resource Wars, Blood and Oil, Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet and The Race for What's Left. A regular contributor to Harper's, Foreign Affairs, and the Los Angeles Times, he is the defense analyst for The Nation and the director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College in Amherst.