Monsters to Destroy. Manifest Destiny
Description
With the collapse of the U.S.S.R., suddenly the U.S. was the sole superpower - a militaristic global leader with no clear enemy or foreign policy goal. The section "New World Disorder" illustrates the unprecedented turbulence of the fractured post - Cold War world during the George H. W. Bush administration: the Tiananmen Square protests, the U.S. invasion of Panama, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Gulf War, ethnic cleansing in the Balkans and Rwanda, and famine in Somalia. "Indispensable Nation" analyzes President Clinton's inability to create a demilitarized Manifest Destiny based solely on trade and economic growth. And "Smarter Than History" uses pivotal events from the George W. Bush presidency - the 9/11 attacks and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq - to examine the compromised objectives and unforeseen consequences of a deliberately unilateral foreign policy.
Runtime
90 min
Series
Subjects
- Manifest Destiny (8)
- International relations (610)
- Political activists (157)
- World politics (2067)
- World history (1846)
- Public policy (International law) (22)
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
[2012], c2011
Database
Films on Demand
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