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American National Security /
"The sixth edition of American National Security has been extensively rewritten to take into account the significant changes in national security policy in the past decade. Thorough revisions reflect a new strategic context and the challenges and opportunities faced by the United States in the...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
The Johns Hopkins University Press,
2009.
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| Edition: | Sixth ed. |
| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword / James Schlesinger
- National security policy: what it is, and how Americans have approached it. The international setting ; Traditional American approaches to national security ; The evolution of American national security policy
- National security policy: actors and processes. Presidential leadership and the Executive Branch ; Congress ; Homeland security ; Intelligence and national security ; The role of the military in the policy process ; Planning, budgeting, and management ; Putting the pieces together: national security decision making
- National security policy: ways and means of national strategy. Shaping the international environment ; Economics ; Military power ; Asymmetric conflict, terrorism, and preemption ; Conventional war ; Irregular challenges, military intervention, and counterinsurgency ; Nuclear policy
- International and regional security issues. East Asia ; South Asia ; The Middle East ; Sub-Saharan Africa ; Russia ; Europe ; Latin America
- National security policy: current and future issues in American national security policy. Globalization and human security ; Looking ahead.