Averting Global War

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 “war on terrorism”; NATO enlargement to Russian borders; US intervention in Iraq; US 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, the domestic socio-political effects of Latin American immigration upon the US. The book’s goal is to articulate an irenic 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 clandestine and overt methods of warfare.

Hall Gardner’s work focuses on the origins of war, yet more specifically on deliberating the phenomenon of war’s eruption and its regional and global ramifications–with an eye toward developing policies that are intended to prevent, resolve or transform disputes before they result in even more intractable conflicts. He is the author of American Global Strategy and the “War on Terrorism” (2005; 2007); Dangerous Crossroads: Europe, Russia, and the Future of NATO (1997); Surviving the Millennium (1994) He is general editor and contributor, NATO and the European Union: New World New Europe New Threats (2004); co-editor and contributor,The New Transatlantic Agenda: Facing the Challenges of Global Governance (2001); General editor and contributor, Central and Southeastern Europe in Transition: Perspectives on Success and Failure Since 1989 (March 1999)–among many other publications. He is a member of the Committee on Atlantic Studies and of The World Political Forum and is presently Professor of International Relations in the Department of International and Comparative Politics at the American University of Paris.

“Averting Global War is an artful and arresting defense of the need for American policy-makers to adopt meaningful and wise strategies for handling the growing number of regional problems throughout the world. In a comprehensive manner, Hall Gardner demonstrates how violence and perhaps even wars among the major powers may result if the wrong approaches are taken to these growing challenges.”–Robert Jackson, Author of Temptations of Power: the US in Global Politics since 9/11“Hall Gardner zeroes in on the ‘new world disorder,’ and alerts us to the geostrategic dangers inherent in our unsettled time.”–Susan Eisenhower, President of The Eisenhower Group, Inc., and Chairman Emeritus, The Eisenhower Institute