With the announcement of his resignation from the World Bank, the ongoing saga of Paul Wolfowitz, played out in the front pages of the world's newspapers, came to a dramatic conclusion. Paul D. Wolfowitz, as columnist George F. Will wrote in the Washington Post (May 12, 2005), has never been elected to office or served in a president's cabinet, but he has mattered much more than most who have. A longtime State Department hand (Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Ambassador to Indonesia), a leading scholar/intellectual (Dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies), Deputy Secretary of Defense for four years, and one of the architects of the Bush Doctrine, Wolfowitz is a crucial figure in post-Cold War foreign and security policy. He most recently served as President of the World Bank. In each of these roles, he has stood out for his neoconservative and often uncompromising positions. It is no wonder that he is often vilified by the Left and lionized by the Right. In this first full-length biography of Wolfowitz, Solomon attempts to capture him not by delineating the quotidian details of his career, but by tracing his intellectual development and bureaucratic influence at key points along the road to Baghdad and beyond.
With the announcement of his resignation from the World Bank, the ongoing saga of Paul Wolfowitz, played out in the front pages of the world's newspapers, came to a dramatic conclusion. Paul D. Wolfowitz, as columnist George F. Will wrote in the Washington Post (May 12, 2005), has never been elected to office or served in a president's cabinet, but he has mattered much more than most who have. A longtime State Department hand (Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Ambassador to Indonesia), a leading scholar/intellectual (Dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies), Deputy Secretary of Defense for four years, and one of the architects of the Bush Doctrine, Wolfowitz is a crucial figure in post-Cold War foreign and security policy. He most recently served as President of the World Bank. In each of these roles, he has stood out for his neoconservative and often uncompromising positions. It is no wonder that he is often vilified by the Left and lionized by the Right. In this first full-length biography of Wolfowitz, Solomon attempts to capture him not by delineating the quotidian details of his career, but by tracing his intellectual development and bureaucratic influence at key points along the road to Baghdad and beyond.
Über den Autor
Lewis D. Solomon is Van Vleck Research Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School. He is the author of numerous books, among them From Athens to America: Virtues and the Formulation of Public Policy (2006), The Quest for Human Longevity (2006), and In God We Trust? Faith-based Organizations and the Quest to Solve America's Social Ills (2003).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1. Introduction 1Chapter 2. The Personal and Intellectual Roots of Paul Wolfowitz's Worldview 9Chapter 3. Wolfowitz, the Practical Idealist 20Chapter 4. Wolfowitz Views the United States as the World's Sole Superpower 42Chapter 5. The Road to Baghdad, Part One: Operation Desert Storm 55Chapter 6. The Road to Baghdad, Part Two: Operation Enduring Freedom 71Chapter 7. The Road to Baghdad, Part Three: Operation Iraqi Freedom 85Chapter 8. The Aftermath of the War and the Quest for Democracy in Iraq and Elsewhere in the Middle East 100Chapter 9. Wolfowitz at The World Bank 129Postscript 152Notes155Selected Bibliography199Index201
