Includes President George W. Bush's document "The national security strategy of the United States of America," originally released Sept. 2002, with three analytical essays added.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Overview of America's international strategy -- Champion aspirations for human dignity -- Strengthen alliances to defeat global terrorism and work to prevent attacks against us and our friends -- Work with others to defuse regional conflicts -- Prevent our enemies from threatening us, our allies, and our friends with weapons of mass destruction -- Ignite a new era of global economic growth through free markets and free trade -- Expand the circle of development by opening societies and building the infrastructure of democracy -- Develop agendas for cooperative action with the other main centers of global power -- Transform America's national security institutions to meet the challenges and opportunities of the twenty-first century -- Strengthening intelligence to better protect America -- Response to terrorism : legal aspects of the use of military force / David M. Ackerman -- U.S. use of preemptive military force / Richard F. Grimmett -- International law and the preemptive use fo force against Iraq / David M. Ackerman.
