"No area of the world has been viewed by Americans with greater moral disapproval and yet less attention than southern Africa," writes Anthony Lake in the introduction to The "Tar Baby" Option. Feeling that there is much to be learned from an examination of the American response to the Rhodesian problem, he offers a detailed account of America's Southern Rhodesia policy since the Smith government's unilateral declaration of independence from Great Britain in 1965. The book provides information essential to an understanding of the American approach to the current crisis in the region. The author's use of previously undisclosed materials and interviews with U.S. foreign policymakers gives the reader an inside look not only at the Rhodesian question but also at the politics of American foreign policy.

The Tar Baby Option

History

Lake, Anthony

Africa

Columbia University Press

A former National Security Advisor offers a chilling portrait of six terrifying scenarios that threaten the safety and security of the United States, including the rise of global terrorism and the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and describes why and why not the American government is prepared to meet such potential threats. 20,000 first printing.

Six Nightmares: Real Threats in a Dangerous World and How America Can Meet Them

Americas

Little,Brown & Co

A former National Security Advisor offers a chilling portrait of six terrifying scenarios that threaten the safety and security of the United States, including the rise of global terrorism and the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and describes why and why not the American government is prepared to meet such potential threats. Reprint. 18,000 first printing.

6 Nightmares: The Real Threats to American Security...

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Back Bay Books

A former director of policy planning for President Carter, explores how foreign policy is made and offers an inside perspective of the workings of the State Department, using as a case study the fall of Anastasio Somoza

Somoza Falling

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Three former government officials take to task the foreign-policy decisions of the past five presidents and detail their failures and inadequacies

Our Own Worst Enemy: The Unmaking of American Foreign Policy (A Touchstone Book)

Gelb, Leslie H.

Destler, I.M.

Simon&Schuster

A study of the emergence of US policy towards Nicaragua in 1978-79 which describes the characteristics of the middle players in the decision-making process with a discussion of the complexities which govern their two important groups - career officers and political appointees.

Somoza Falling: A Case Study of Washington at Work

University of Massachusetts Press

The United States and the Persian Gulf

Council on Foreign Relations Press

After the Wars: Reconstruction in Afghanistan, Central America, Indo-China, the Horn of Africa and Southern Africa (U.S.Third World Policy Perspectives Series)

Business & Money

Economics

Routledge

Nazi Germany and the Holocaust in Historical Crime Fiction (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

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