Lives at Risk: Hostages and Victims in American Foreign Policy - Softcover

Russell D. Buhite

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0842025537 ISBN 13: 9780842025539

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK), 1995

Synopsis

Lives at Risk: Hostages and Victims in American Foreign Policy is the first book that provides the historical content needed to understand terrorism and Americas responses to terrorist acts. Historian Russell D. Buhite here examines key instances of hostage-taking throughout U.S. history, from the late eighteenth century to the 1980s, and shows how our policies have evolved and how previous experiences can help us deal with terrorist threats today. Professor Buhite begins this study with a discussion of the special problems that the United States has faced in dealing with hostage crises. The subsequent chapters then proceed chronologically through U.S. history, narrating major hostage incidents and tracing changes in Washingtons stance toward terrorists. Lives at Risk will appeal to teachers of courses in foreign policy, diplomatic history, general history, and political science.

About this title

About the Author

Russell D. Buhite is professor of history and head of the History Department at the University of Tennessee.

From the Back Cover

This study of American foreign policy focuses on the issue of how the United States dealt with the holding of its citizens as hostages on foreign territory and how it responded in other cases in which Americans were victimized while living or conducting business aboard.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK)
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0842025537
• ISBN 13: 9780842025539
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 268