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Book SynopsisWhy Containment Works examines the conduct of American foreign policy during and after the Cold War through the lens of applied policy analysis. Wallace J. Thies argues that the Bush Doctrine after 2002 was a theory of victorya coherent strategic view that tells a state how best to transform scarce resources into useful military assets, and how to employ those assets in conflicts. He contrasts prescriptions derived from the Bush Doctrine with an alternative theory of victory, one based on containment and deterrence, which US presidents employed for much of the Cold War period. There are, he suggests, multiple reasons for believing that containment was working well against Saddam Hussein''s Iraq after the first Gulf War and that there was no need to invade Iraq in 2003.
Thies reexamines five cases of containment drawn from the Cold War and the post-Cold War world. Each example, Thies suggests, offered US officials a choice between reliance on traditional notions of conta
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This book should be read by scholars and policy makers alike. Highly recommended.
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Table of Contents1. Preventive War and Containment
2. Containing Qaddafi's Libya
3. Dual Containment of Iraq and Iran
4. Containing Iraq
5. Invading Iraq
6. Containing Iran
7. Containment Reappraised
