Verfasst von:	Khalil, Osamah F. [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	A world of enemies
Titelzusatz:	America's wars at home and abroad from Kennedy to Biden
Verf.angabe:	Osamah F. Khalil
Verlagsort:	Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England
Verlag:	Harvard University Press
Jahr:	2024
Umfang:	396 Seiten
Illustrationen:	Karten
Fussnoten:	Literaturangaben, Register
Ang. zum Inhalt:	The firemen
	Vietnam's long shadow
	Nixon's wars and the long 1970s
	Cold War twilight and the fear of decline
	Badlands
	The limits of primacy
	Constructing global terrorism and the long war for civilization
	Dark lands and the geography of empire
ISBN:	978-0-674-24422-1
Abstract:	Over the past half-century, Americans have watched their country extend its military power to what seemed the very ends of the earth. America's might is felt on nearly every continent - and even on its own streets. Decades ago, the Wars on Drugs and Terror broke down the walls separating law enforcement from military operations. A World of Enemies tells the story of how an America plagued by fears of waning power and influence embraced foreign and domestic forever wars. Osamah Khalil argues that the militarization of US domestic and foreign affairs was the product of America's failure in Vietnam. Unsettled by their inability to prevail in Southeast Asia, US leaders increasingly came to see a host of problems as immune to political solutions. Rather, crime, drugs, and terrorism were enemies spawned in "badlands" - whether the Middle East or stateside inner cities. Characterized as sites of endemic violence, badlands lay beyond the pale of civilization, their ostensibly racially and culturally alien inhabitants best handled by force. Yet militarized policy has brought few victories. Its failures - in Iraq, Afghanistan, US cities, and increasingly rural and borderland America - have only served to reinforce fears of weakness. It is time, Khalil argues, for a new approach. Instead of managing never-ending conflicts, we need to reinvest in the tools of traditional politics and diplomacy.
	"In US foreign policy, conflict has replaced diplomacy. At home, wars on crime, drugs, immigration, and terrorism dissolve barriers between law enforcement and combat. Tracing the origins of militarized policy to post-Vietnam fears of waning US power, Osamah Khalil argues that it is time to discard forever wars and invest in political solutions."--
URL:	Inhaltsverzeichnis: http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780674244221.pdf
Schlagwörter:	(s)Bedrohungsvorstellung    / (s)Feindbild    / (s)Kollektive Sicherheit    / (s)Vorstellung    / (s)Sicherheitspolitik    / (s)Internationales politisches System    / (s)Position    / (s)Drogenpolitik    / (g)USA
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Khalil, Osamah F., 1971 - : A world of enemies. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2024. - 1 Online-Ressource (396 Seiten)
RVK-Notation:	ML 5700
	HD 472
K10plus-PPN:	185625724X