U.S. foreign policy toward the Third World : a post-Cold War assessment / edited by Jurgen Ruland, Theodor Hanf, and Eva Manske.

Revised papers originally presented at a conference entitled "Benign Neglect? : American Third-World Policies After the End of the Cold War" held in Freiburg, Germany, Oct. 7-8, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

American policies toward the global south in the post-Cold War era / Jürgen Rüland, Theodor Hanf, and Eva Manske -- American foreign policy : between isolationism and internationalism, unilateralism and multilateralism / Hanns W. Maull -- Decision-making processes and actors in American foreign policy formulation : Is there a Third-World lobby? / James M. McCormick -- American foreign policy toward Latin America in the post-Cold War era : a case of benign neglect? / Howard J. Wiarda -- American policy in the post-Cold War Middle East / William B. Quandt -- Southeast Asia and the United States after September 11, 2001 / Amitav Acharya -- U.S. policy interests in South Asia : continuities and disjuncture / Sumit Ganguly -- United states and Africa : "Uncle Sam" or "Uncle Scrooge"? / Peter J. Schraeder -- The revival of geopolitics : U.S. politics in Afghanistan and Central Asia / Conrad Schetter and Bernd Kuzmits -- Conclusion and perspectives : U.S. policy toward the global south after September 11, 2001 / Jurgen Ruland.