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Creating the national security state : a history of the law that transformed America /
For the last sixty years, American foreign and defense policymaking has been dominated by a network of institutions created by one piece of legislation--the 1947 National Security Act. This is the definitive study of the intense political and bureaucratic struggles that surrounded the passage and in...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | For the last sixty years, American foreign and defense policymaking has been dominated by a network of institutions created by one piece of legislation--the 1947 National Security Act. This is the definitive study of the intense political and bureaucratic struggles that surrounded the passage and initial implementation of the law. Focusing on the critical years from 1937 to 1960, Douglas Stuart shows how disputes over the lessons of Pearl Harbor and World War II informed the debates that culminated in the legislation, and how the new national security agencies were subsequently transformed by. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 342 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-333) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400823772 1400823773 0691133719 9780691133713 9780691155470 069115547X |