John Lewis Gaddis's research while affiliated with Yale University and other places

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Gaddis primarily focuses on US dilemmas over the relationship between order and justice throughout the twentieth century. He argues that from the time of Theodore Roosevelt to that of Richard M. Nixon, a concern for order had superseded a concern for justice. After that time, and especially in the post-Cold War era, these two concepts were finally...
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President George W. Bush's national security strategy could represent the most sweeping shift in U.S. grand strategy since the beginning of the Cold War. But its success depends on the willingness of the rest of the world to welcome U.S. power with open arms.

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... Truth Commissions are at the heart of the dilemma between the pursuit of justice (in the strictest sense of the term) and the desire to restore order to society following violent conflicts. This is the classic dilemma of order versus justice (Gaddis, 2003). Criminals can only be prosecuted and given a just sentence if a certain order is present in society. ...
... Institutional opportunities and the need for advice by the US policy elite about how to run the world made it 30 For a sample of articles on Clinton's foreign policy, none especially favourable, see Mandelbaum (1996), Schlesinger (1998Schlesinger ( -1999, Rubinstein (1996) and Haass (1997). See also the later attack on Clinton by Gaddis (2002). 31 In a thoughtful, but not uncritical review, Halliday (1996) said my book was a 'welcome corrective and a pretty persuasive one to much of the current academic literature and endless editorial pages' which took it as read that since the end of the Cold War the United States was either on the slide or had 'lost its way'. ...