Averting global war : regional challenges, overextension, and options for American strategy / Hall Gardner.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-276) and index.

Introduction "Crying Wolf" Once Again? -- Ch. 1. Triptych of Terrorism -- Ch. 2. The Uncoordinated NATO-EU "Double Enlargement": Toward the Isolation of Russia? -- Ch. 3. Iraq: Sinking Deeper into Mesopotamian Quicksand -- Ch. 4. Iran: Nuclear High Tension and Holocaust Polemics -- Ch. 5. Israel and Palestinian Fratricide: Beyond the "Two State Solution"? -- Ch. 6. An Ever-widening Zone of Conflict, Terrorism, and Black Market Activities: From Central Asia to Sub-Saharan Africa -- Ch. 7. North Korea: Beyond "Backdoor" Multilateralism -- Ch. 8. China and Blue-water Dreams: Toward a Sino-Russian Alliance? -- Ch. 9. Three Dimensions of "Montezuma's Revenge": Hugo Chavez's Bolivarian Vision, "War on Drugs," and "Illegal" Immigration -- Ch. 10. American Hypertrophy and Strategic Options: Toward a Geostrategy for Global Peace.

"Averting Global War examines major regional disputes and conflicts throughout the world as they impact upon both American domestic and foreign policy. These include: The ongoing "global war on terrorism"; NATO enlargement to Russian borders; U.S. intervention in Iraq; U.S. confrontation with Iran; the feud between Israel and the Palestinians the widening "zone of conflict" from Central Asia to sub-Saharan Africa; the global ramifications of North Korea's nuclear program and China's claims to Taiwan; Venezuela's "Bolivarian Revolution" and the "war on drugs" in Latin America; and the domestic socio-political effects of Latin American immigration upon the United States. The book's goal is to articulate a conciliatory American strategy intended to resolve, or at least transform, a number of these disputes and conflicts so as to prevent them from further "deepening" or "widening" - and to avert the real possibility of major power confrontation involving both covert and overt methods of warfare."--BOOK JACKET.