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American Foreign Relations Reconsideredby Gordon Martel
Routledge 1994; US$ 41.95This major textbook brings together twelve of the leading scholars of US foreign relations. Each contributor provides a clear, concise summary of an important period or theme in US diplomatic and strategic affairs. more...
US Foreign Policy Since 1945by Alan Dobson; Steve Marsh
Routledge 2000; US$ 24.95An essential and concise introduction to postwar US foreign policy. It explores the key questions of who makes policy, why, in what style or tradition, under what kinds of democratic controls and in what kind of international environment. more...
Meeting the Communist Threatby Thomas G. Paterson
Oxford University Press 1990; US$ 30.00This volume contains a series of essays on major subjects in American diplomacy since World War II. The author takes the view that US foreign policy has been distorted by the overriding importance given to combating the Communist threat. more...
US Foreign Policy since 1945by Alan Dobson; Steve Marsh
Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 29.95Presents students with a useful introduction to postwar US foreign policy. This book explores the key questions of who makes policy, why, in what style or tradition, under what kinds of democratic controls and in what kind of international environment. more...
The Advancement of Libertyby Matthew C. Price
Greenwood Publishing Group 2007; US$ 50.00This book is a counterpoint to the prevailing view that the United States is an imperialist nation that has violently pursued power in the world to advance its own narrow interests. more...
Challenging American Leadershipby Ernst Gabriel Frankel
Springer 2006; US$ 139.00After leading the world during most of the 20th century in economic, political, technological, military, and even social terms, America's role is being challenged. India and China are emerging as new economic powers, with advancing technological prowess. This book talks about this issue. more...
To Dare and to Conquerby Derek Leebaert
Little, Brown and Company 2009; US$ 9.99The Fifty-Year Wound is the first cohesively integrated history of the Cold War, one replete with important lessons for today. Drawing upon literature, strategy, biography, and economics -- plus an inside perspective from the intelligence community -- Derek Leebaert explores what Americans sacrificed at the same time that they achieved the longest great-power peace since Rome fell. Why did they commit so much in wealth and opportunity with so little sustained complaint? Why did the conflict drag on for decades? What did the Cold War do to the country, and how? What was lost while victory was gained? Leebaert has uncovered an astonishing array of never-published documents and information, including major revelations about American covert operations... more...
Strategies of Containmentby John Lewis Gaddis
Oxford University Press, USA 2005; US$ 18.95When Strategies of Containment was first published, the Soviet Union was still a superpower, Ronald Reagan was president of the United States, and the Berlin Wall was still standing. This updated edition of Gaddis' classic carries the history of containment through the end of the Cold War. Beginning with Franklin D. Roosevelt's postwar plans, Gaddis provides a thorough critical analysis of George F. Kennan's original strategy of containment, NSC-68, The Eisenhower-Dulles "New Look," the Kennedy-Johnson "flexible response" strategy, the Nixon-Kissinger strategy of detente, and now a comprehensive assessment of how Reagan-- and Gorbechev-- completed the process of containment, thereby bringing the Cold War to an... more...
Why America Fightsby Susan A. Brewer
Oxford University Press, USA 2009; US$ 19.95Introduction 1. The "Divine Mission": War in the Philippines 2. Crusade for Democracy: Over There in the Great War 3. The Good War: Fighting for a Better Life in World War II 4. War in Korea: "The Front Line in the Struggle between Freedom and Tyranny" 5. Why Vietnam? More Questions Than Answers 6. Operation Iraqi Freedom: War and Infoganda Conclusion more...
The Making of the Cold War Enemyby Ron Theodore Robin
Princeton University Press 2003; US$ 30.95At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. government enlisted the aid of a select group of psychologists, sociologists, and political scientists to blueprint enemy behavior. Not only did these academics bring sophisticated concepts to what became a project of demonizing communist societies, but they influenced decision-making in the map rooms, prison camps, and battlefields of the Korean War and in Vietnam. With verve and insight, Ron Robin tells the intriguing story of the rise of behavioral scientists in government and how their potentially dangerous, "American" assumptions about human behavior would shape U.S. views of domestic disturbances and insurgencies in Third World countries for decades to come. Based at government-funded think tanks,... more...