THE BUSH LEADERSHIP, THE POWER OF IDEAS, AND THE WAR ON TERROR
The Bush Leadership, the Power of Ideas, and the War on Terror
Edited by
DAVID B. MACDONALD
University of Guelph, Canada
DIRK NABERS
Christian-Albrechts-Universitt zu Kiel, Germany
ROBERT G. PATMAN
University of Otago, New Zealand
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The Bush leadership, the power of ideas, and the war on terror.
1. Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946Influence.
2. United StatesForeign relations2001-2009. 3. United StatesPolitics and government2001-2009. 4. war on Terrorism, 2001-2009. 5. Political leadershipUnited StatesCase studies.
I. MacDonald, David Bruce. II. Nabers, Dirk, 1968-
III. Patman, Robert G.
973.931-dc23
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The Bush leadership, the power of ideas, and the war on terror / edited by David B. MacDonald, Dirk Nabers and Robert G. Patman.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4094-4715-3 (hardback)
1. United StatesForeign relations2001-2009. 2. War on Terrorism, 2001-2009. 3. Power (Social sciences)United StatesHistory21st century. 4. Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946Political and social views. I. MacDonald, David Bruce. II. Nabers, Dirk, 1968- III. Patman, Robert G.
E902.B86965 2012
973.931dc23
2012003866
ISBN 9781409447153 (hbk)
Contents
David B. MacDonald, Dirk Nabers and Robert G. Patman
Robert G. Patman
David B. MacDonald
Dirk Nabers
David Patrick Houghton
David Lebow and Richard Ned Lebow
Michael Rubin
Nicholas Kitchen
James M. McCormick
Martin N. Stanton
David B. MacDonald, Dirk Nabers and Robert G. Patman
List of Contributors
David Patrick Houghton is a British-born writer and academic who is currently based in Orlando, FL. He is also an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Central Florida. His most recent books are U.S. Foreign Policy and the Iran Hostage Crisis (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Controversies in American Politics and Society (Blackwell, 2002, co-authored with David McKay and Andrew Wroe) and Political Psychology: Situations, Individuals, and Cases (Routledge, 2009). His new book, The Decision Point, is due to be published by Oxford University Press in 2012, and he is currently working on a book about Western misperceptions and the Ayatollah Khomeini. His area of expertise is political psychology and decision-making in international relations, with a particular focus on American foreign policy and foreign policy analysis. He has published articles in journals such as the British Journal of Political Science, Political Psychology, Security Studies, Terrorism and Political Violence, Policy Sciences, Foreign Policy Analysis, International Studies Review, Peace and Conflict and International Politics. He has also taught at the Universities of Pittsburgh and Essex, and from 2001 to 2002 was a Visiting Scholar at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at the Ohio State University.
Nicholas Kitchen is a Research Fellow at IDEAS, the Centre for International Affairs Diplomacy and Strategy at the London School of Economics, and a Visiting Lecturer at City University, Birkbeck College and the Institute for the Study of the Americas. His book, Strategy in US Foreign Policy, will be published by Routledge in 2012.
David Lebow is a doctoral student in the Department of Political Science at Yale University. His research focuses on modern German social and political thought. He is completing a dissertation on the problems that political action and time pose for deliberative democracy.
Richard Ned Lebow is the James O. Freedman Presidential Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. His recent publications include A Cultural Theory of International Relations (Cambridge, 2008), Why Nations Fight (Cambridge, 2010), Forbidden Fruit: Counterfactuals and International Relations (Princeton, 2010) and The Politics and Ethics of Identity: In Search of Ourselves (Cambridge, 2012).
David B. MacDonald is an Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Guelph, Ontario, and formerly Senior Lecturer in Political Studies, University of Otago. His work is focused on international relations, comparative Indigenous politics and comparative foreign policy. His recent works include Identity Politics in the Age of Genocide (Routledge, 2008), Thinking History, Fighting Evil: Neoconservatives and the Perils of Historical Analogy in American Politics (Lexington/Rowman & Littlefield, 2009), and articles in the Canadian Journal of Political Science, Journal of Human Rights, Third World Quarterly, International Politics, Raisons Politiques and Journal of Genocide Research. He has just completed a co-authored textbook entitled Introduction to Politics (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
James M. McCormick is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Iowa State University. He specializes in American foreign policy and international politics. He has published some 40 journal articles on these topics in journals such as The American Political Science Review, World Politics, International Studies Quarterly, the American Journal of Political Science and the Journal of Peace Research, and has contributed some 20 book chapters to various volumes on foreign policy and international politics. He is also the author of American Foreign Policy and Process (5th edition, Wadsworth, 2008) and co-editor of The Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy: Insights and Evidence (5th edition, Rowman & Littlefield, 2007).
Dirk Nabers is a Professor of International Political Sociology at the University of Kiel, Germany, and Director of the Institute of Social Sciences. His areas of expertise include identity politics, discourse theory and IR, critical theory, comparative regionalism and US foreign policy. He has published three monographs and five edited volumes and articles in journals such as
