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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dueck, Colin, 1969-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.