Dedication

pp iii-iv

Contents

pp v-v

List of Abbreviations

pp vi-vi

Acknowledgements

pp vii-viii

Preface

pp ix-x

PART I - Disaggregating Ideas in American Foreign Policy

pp 1-2

1 - Ideas and the Use of Force in American Foreign Policy

pp 3-30

PART II - US Foreign Policy and Mass Atrocities in the Balkans

pp 31-32

2 - ‘We Don’t Have a Dog in the Fight’: Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia

pp 33-51

3 - ‘What Should I Tell My Daughter?’: The Massacre at Srebrenica

pp 52-64

PART III - US Foreign Policy and Terrorism

pp 65-66

4 - ‘Wag the Dog’: Terrorism in the 1990s

pp 67-80

5 - ‘America Is Under Attack’: From the War on Terror to Iraq

pp 81-100

PART IV - Obama and Mass Atrocities in the Middle East

pp 101-102

6 - ‘This Is Like Rwanda’: How the Road to Libya Ran Through Rwanda

pp 103-116

7 - Syria: ‘There Was No Benghazi To Be Saved’

pp 117-132

PART V - ‘America First’ and the Use of Force

pp 133-134

8 - From ‘America First’ to Saving ‘Beautiful Babies’ in Syria

pp 135-148

9 - The 2020 Iranian Crisis: De-escalating from the Use of Force

pp 149-164

PART VI - Conclusions

pp 165-166

10 - Ideas and Foreign Policy Variation

pp 167-176

Notes

pp 177-190

References

pp 191-217

Index

pp 218-222