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  title info:
    title: Exercise of power
    sub title: American failures, successes, and a new path forward in the post-Cold War world
  name:
    name part: Gates, Robert Michael
    name part: 1943-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 453 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Since the end of the Cold War, the global perception of the United States has progressively morphed from dominant international leader to disorganized entity, seemingly unwilling to accept the mantle of leadership or unable to govern itself effectively. Robert Gates argues that this transformation is the result of the failure of political leaders to understand the complexity of American power, its expansiveness and its limitations. He makes clear that the successful exercise of power is not limited to the use of military might or the ability to coerce or demand submission, but must encompass as well diplomacy, economics, strategic communications, development assistance, intelligence, technology, ideology and cyber. By analyzing specific challenges faced by the American government in the post-Cold War period, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, North Korea, Syria, Libya, Russia, China and others, Gates deconstructs the ways in which leaders have used the instruments of power available to them. With forthright judgments of the performance of past presidents and their senior-most advisors, first-hand knowledge and insider stories, Gates argues that U.S. national security in the future will require learning, and abiding by, the lessons of the past, and re-creating those capabilities that the misuse of power has cost the nation.
  table of contents: The symphony of power -- Exercising power -- Iran: great Satan's Bane -- Somalis, Haiti and the Yugoslav Wars: good intentions and the road to hell -- Colombia: the plan that worked (mostly) -- Afghanistan: war without end -- Iraq: a curse -- Africa: a success story -- Russia: Opportunity missed? -- Georgia, Libya, Syria and Ukraine: to intervene or not intervene -- North Korea: Crazy like a fox -- China: competition, conflict or something new -- Lessons learned.
  note: Robert M. Gates.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Foreign relations
    temporal: 1989-
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1989-
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Military relations
  classification: E840 .G38 2020
  classification: 973.929
  identifier: 9781524731885
  identifier: 1524731889
  identifier: 9781524731892
  identifier: 2019057305
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200228
    record change date: 20201020070402.0
    record identifier: in00004169740