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Shields of the Republic : The Triumph and Peril of America's Alliances /

Is America's alliance system so quietly effective that politicians and voters fail to appreciate its importance in delivering the security they take for granted? For the first century and a half of its existence, the United States had just one alliance-a valuable but highly controversial milita...

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Autor principal: Rapp-Hooper, Mira (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2020]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. AMERICA' S ALLIANCE LOGICS
  • 2. DEFENSE AND DETERRENCE IN THE COLD WAR
  • 3. AT WHAT COST, ALLIANCE?
  • 4. ALLIANCES AFTER THE COLD WAR
  • 5. THE DAWN OF MODERN COMPETITION
  • 6. THE SHIELDS WEAR FROM WITHIN
  • 7. DEFENSE AND DETERRENCE FOR A NEW ERA
  • NOTES
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INDEX