study of foreign policy during the end of the cold war and also a group biography looking at georgw h.w. bush. i should mention whenever i mention bush, i am referring to 41. it's also a study of him and those around him. the collective biography of american decision making during this period. it also tries to situate american policy making within a broader international m erk leau. time and begun to discover that events that occurred were in this many ways not generated by the united states. the united states was reactive often times more than prescriptive during these times. one of the arguments i make is that this is really the essence of president bush's policy making and of his foreign policy as a whole was to be cautiously reactive. realistically reactive without being too overly skuexuberant foreign events. it's fortunate recall all that was done during the four years, the breaking of the soviet union itself which is something that not many anticipated months before. we also have things on the other side of the globe, tiananmen square which are ultimately met with violence and force. s

study of foreign policy during the end of the cold war and also a group biography looking at georgw h.w. bush. i should mention whenever i mention bush, i am referring to 41. it's also a study of him and those around him. the collective biography of american decision making during this period. it also tries to situate american policy making within a broader international m erk leau. time and begun to discover that events that occurred were in this many ways not generated by the united states. the united states was reactive often times more than prescriptive during these times. one of the arguments i make is that this is really the essence of president bush's policy making and of his foreign policy as a whole was to be cautiously reactive. realistically reactive without being too overly skuexuberant foreign events. it's fortunate recall all that was done during the four years, the breaking of the soviet union itself which is something that not many anticipated months before. we also have things on the other side of the globe, tiananmen square which are ultimately met with violence and force. s