Rogue States: The Making of America's Global War on Terror

In Rogue States, Matthew A. Frakes reveals the connection between US national security strategy at the end of the Cold War and the beginning of the War on Terror. Throughout a series of crises from 1981 to 1991, the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush recognized that emerging threats to global security—terrorism, regional aggression, weapons of mass destruction, and narcotics trafficking—converged into a single growing phenomenon that they eventually called "rogue states....