TY - BOOK AU - JONES, Howard TI - Crucible of power : : a history of American foreign relations from 1945 SN - 978-0-7425-6454-1 U1 - 327.7300904 JON 22nd ed. PY - 2009/// CY - Lanham PB - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers KW - United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989. United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989- United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989 -- Decision making N1 - Includes bibliography and index N2 - "This book focuses on the personalities, security interests, and postwar / Cold War tendencies behind the formulation and implementation of U.S. foreign policy since 1945. The book includes updated coverage of the Bush administration's foreign policy, with particular emphasis on the Middle East. Selections from key foreign policy documents appear in each chapter."--Jacket ER -