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Article: From Berlin to Baghdad: America's Search for Purpose in the Post-Cold War World.(Book review)
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- June 22, 2009
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From Berlin to Baghdad: America's Search for Purpose in the Post-Cold War World. By Hal Brands. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2008. Notes. Index. Bibliography. Pp. vii, 416. $45.00 ISBN 0-8131-2462-9
The story is familiar. America's Cold War conflict with the worldwide forces of communism gave meaning and purpose to its role as a great power. During this contest, the United States' policy of containment and the domestic political consensus that sustained it provided clarity, coherence, and focus in the exercise of great power. Ultimately, the West's victory in the Cold War left the United States with neither purpose nor focus and in search of a ...