Will, within the communist world would react to remove those like gorbachev who tried to push the world forward through with reform. And ultimately, we see this fear coming true in august of 1991 when there was a conservative coup, at that point without very likelihood of success. But nonetheless, the great fear that that could generate into civil war, Ethnic Violence and the like. So i argue that there are really two moments, therefore, when president bush essentially took off the hypocratic gloves, if you will. The first was with reunification of germany. He believed in a nato context it was necessary to keep future sta bill nit europe because having nato in europe allowed the americans to also stay in europe and he believed firmly the only thing that kept the peace since 1945 in europe was the american presence. Therefore he pushed hard for reunification an the terms he needed which was keeping germany in nato. And the second moment was the gulf war. When this strikes me as really t
Solve yes union that was the lifeline for some of these governments, so there was a lot to Pay Attention to, and the president was predisposed to want to pay a lot of attention to it, but he had to exercise great discipline and set priority. Because a jim bakker couldnt be preoccupied with some of these distractions that were not distractions for the people who were hungry, and he would have to send people over to help and make things happen. But there was an awful lot going on. President bush, because he had been as, probably the best trained president ever, he would bring with him, gosh, i would have been paying a lot of attention to this, i want to know about it, i want to get involved, i should know whats going on. And he did want to know whats going on, and he was restrained and saying somebody has to Pay Attention to this and if it gets to a level, ring my bell. 9. And the story which one hears about the srnjpre[y;ekurj ultim decisionmaking is aep verqkf private one about somalia
Can critique that manuscript before it is too late . We have all been there when our book has come out and you participate in a panel and people always say, you should have done this, you should have done that. Today, we do have one of the worlds leading scholars, jeff engel, who i will say a word about first. Jeff is presenting his manuscript very much in progress. The title is when the world seemed new george h. W. Bush and the end of the cold war. Jeff is an associate professor of history and the director of the center for president ial history at Southern Methodist university. He is the author of numerous books. Two of the most recent include into the desert and the fall of the berlin wall. And we are really fortunate to have jeff with us. He is going to say a few words about his manuscript. He put a few chapters of it up online. I know that some of you had a chance to look at it. Ira said, you really should get a practitioner, someone who knows a thing or two about how government
Conference, but you need something to tie the room together. Why dont you have a leading scholar come in and present a manuscript in progress and really bring some of the leading scholars and practitioners who can critique that manuscript before it is too late . We have all been there when our book has come out and you participate in a panel and people always say, you should have done this, you should have done that. Today, we do have one of the worlds leading scholars, jeff engel, who i will say a word about first. Jeff is presenting his manuscript very much in progress. The title is when the world seemed new george h. W. Bush and. E end of the cold war an associate professor of history and the director of the center for president ial history at Southern Methodist university. He is the author of numerous books. Includehe most recent into the desert and the fall of the berlin wall. And we are really fortunate to have jeff with us. He is going to say a few words about his manuscript. He