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Safeguarding democratic capitalism : U.S. foreign policy and national security, 1920-2015 /

Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism gathers together decades of writing by Melvyn Leffler, one of the most respected historians of American foreign policy, to address important questions about U.S. national security policy from the end of World War I to the global war on terror. Why did the United St...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Leffler, Melvyn P., 1945- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2017]
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction: embracing complexity
  • The origins of republican war debt policy, 1921-1923: a case study of the applicability of the open door interpretation
  • Herbert Hoover, the "New era," and American foreign policy, 1921-1929
  • Political isolationism, economic expansionism, or diplomatic realism: American policy toward Western Europe, 1921-1933
  • The American conception of national security and the beginnings of the Cold War, 1945-1948
  • Strategy, diplomacy, and the Cold War: the United States, Turkey, and NATO, 1945-1952
  • Adherence to agreements: Yalta and the experiences of the early Cold War
  • Victory: the "State," the "West," and the Cold War
  • Dreams of freedom, temptations of power
  • 9/11 and American foreign policy
  • Austerity and U.S. strategy: lessons of the past
  • National security.