Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism: U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security, 1920-2015
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (922 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691172587 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 360 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Melvyn P. His many books include For the Soul of Mankind and A Preponderance of Power. Leffler is the Edward Stettinius Professor of American History at the University of Virginia and faculty fellow at UVA’s Miller Center
national interests?Leffler’s wide-ranging essays explain how foreign policy evolved into national security policy. While assessing the course of U.S. national security policy from the end of World War I to the global war on terror. He stresses the competing priorities that forced policymakers to make agonizing trade-offs and illuminates the travails of the policymaking process itself. national security policy by one of its most influential thinkers, Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism includes a substantial new introduction from the author.. national security policy, he also interrogates the evolution of his own scholarship. Over time, slowly and almost unconsciously, Leffler’s work has married elements of revisionism with realism to form a unique synthesis that uses threat perception as a lens to understand how and why policymakers reconcile the pressures emanating from external dangers and internal priorities.An account of the development of U.S. 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. Why did the United States withdraw strategically from Europe after World War I and not after World War II? How did World War II reshape Americans’ understanding of
It also happens to address a central question facing American foreign policy todayhow to safeguard American security and economic interests in an increasingly challenging world. It not only teaches much about American foreign policy decision making, it also traces the arc of one of our discipline's most vibrant and influential writers."--Jeffrey A. He is a historian’s historian, and this collection of his remarkably influential essays, along with his compelling introduction, makes clear why his work has shaped th