A World Transformed

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Sep 7, 1999 - Political Science - 624 pages
"The most important book yet written about the end of the Cold War."
-The New York Tmes Book Review

"Among the finest expositions of modern American foreign policy. . . . An excellent book."  
-Eugene V. Rostow, The Wall Street Journal

It was a pivotal administration in the history of American foreign policy--for during George Bush's presidency a series of international events took place that had a profound impact on the course of America and on the future of world diplomacy.  
        In A World Transformed, Mr. Bush and his national security advisor, Brent Scowcroft, provide a fascinating account of a president and an administration faced with unprecedented obstacles and unrivaled opportunities as they forged a foreign policy at the end of the Cold War. Solidarity comes to power in Poland. East and West Germans dance on the wall that separated them for half a century. And on Christmas Day, 1991, the hammer-and-sickle flag descends from the Kremlin for the last time.
        It is also a candid analysis of a new chapter in foreign affairs, when the United States led an international alliance to confront the threat presented by Saddam Hussein and presented a dynamic response to the Tiananmen crisis. Balanced and intelligent, A World Transformed offers a landmark treatise on American foreign policy and international diplomacy from two of its principal architects.

"Reveals not only a wealth of detail about the main lines of foreign policy at the highest level during a most portentous period of our history, but also of the truly admirable characters of the men who made it."      
-The Philadelphia Inquirer

"In a strong new book, the ex-president recalls
dangerous days. . . . It should leave little doubt how lucky we were that we had such a seasoned hand on the tiller at a time when foreign policy really counted."  
-Michael R. Beschloss, Newsweek
 

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Contents

Section 1
3
Section 2
29
Section 3
57
Section 4
86
Section 5
112
Section 6
132
Section 7
152
Section 8
182
Section 20
272
Section 21
272
Section 22
272
Section 23
272
Section 24
272
Section 25
279
Section 26
302
Section 27
334

Section 9
205
Section 10
230
Section 11
259
Section 12
272
Section 13
272
Section 14
272
Section 15
272
Section 16
272
Section 17
272
Section 18
272
Section 19
272
Section 28
357
Section 29
388
Section 30
415
Section 31
416
Section 32
450
Section 33
488
Section 34
493
Section 35
518
Section 36
536
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About the author (1999)

George Bush was President of the United States from 1989 to 1993. He lives in Houston, Texas, and Kennebunkport, Maine.

Brent Scowcroft was National Security Advisor under Presidents Ford and Bush. He is president of The Scowcroft Group, Inc., an international consulting firm, and president of the Forum for International Policy, a nonprofit foreign policy foundation, both based in Washington, D.C. He lives in Maryland.

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