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Reluctant crusaders : power, culture, and change in American grand strategy /

In Reluctant Crusaders, Colin Dueck examines patterns of change and continuity in American foreign policy strategy by looking at four major turning points: the periods following World War I, World War II, the Cold War, and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He shows how American cultural assumptions regard...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Dueck, Colin, 1969-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2006.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: Change and Continuity in American Grand Strategy; CHAPTER ONE: Power, Culture, and Grand Strategy; CHAPTER TWO: Strategic Culture and Strategic Adjustment in the United States; CHAPTER THREE: The Lost Alliance: Ideas and Alternatives in American Grand Strategy, 1918-1921; CHAPTER FOUR: Conceiving Containment: Ideas and Alternatives in American Grand Strategy, 1945-1951; CHAPTER FIVE: Hegemony on the Cheap: Ideas and Alternatives in American Grand Strategy, 1992-2000; CONCLUSION: The American Strategic Dilemma; Notes; Index.