American Power After the Berlin Wall traces the global projection of U.S. military power and diplomatic influence from the end of the Cold War to the present. Along with summarizing the Soviet Union's disintegration, it narrates U.S. intervention in a string of conflicts from the Persian Gulf War, Panama, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan to the Iraq War. It narrates the transformation of Washington's stability-first strategy to a democracy promoting agenda in the Middle East.