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US Foreign Policy and Defense Strategy: The Evolution of an Incidental Superpower [Kietas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Hardback, 272 pages, aukštis x plotis: 229x152 mm, weight: 572 g, Not illustrated
  • Išleidimo metai: 15-Dec-2014
  • Leidėjas: Georgetown University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1626161585
  • ISBN-13: 9781626161580
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  • Formatas: Hardback, 272 pages, aukštis x plotis: 229x152 mm, weight: 572 g, Not illustrated
  • Išleidimo metai: 15-Dec-2014
  • Leidėjas: Georgetown University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1626161585
  • ISBN-13: 9781626161580
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This work analyzes the strategic underpinnings of US defense strategy and foreign policy since 1945. Primarily intended to be a supplemental textbook, it explains how the United States became a superpower, examines the formation of the national security establishment, and explores the inter-relationship between foreign policy, defense strategy, and commercial interests. It differs from most of the existing teaching texts because its emphasis is not on narrating the history of US foreign policy or explaining the policymaking process. Instead, the emphasis is on identifying drivers and continuities in US national security interests and policy, and it has a special emphasis on developing a greater understanding of the intertwined nature of foreign and defense policies. The book will conclude by examining how the legacy of the last sixty-five years impacts future developments, the prospect for change, and what US national security policy may look like in the future.

Safe from the battlefields of Europe and Asia, the United States led the post–World War II global economic recovery through international assistance and foreign direct investment. With an ardent decolonization agenda and a postwar legitimacy, the United States attempted to construct a world characterized by cooperation. When American optimism clashed with Soviet expansionism, the United States started on a path to global hegemony.

In US Foreign Policy and Defense Strategy, the authors analyze the strategic underpinnings of hegemony, assess the national security establishment that sustains dominance, consider the impact on civil-military relations, and explore the intertwining relationships between foreign policy, defense strategy, and commercial activities. Eschewing conventional analyses, the volume not only identifies drivers and continuities in foreign policy, but it also examines how the legacy of the last sixty-five years will influence future national security policy that will be characterized by US leadership in an increasingly competitive world.

From civil-military relations to finance, and from competing visions of how America should make war to its philosophy of securing peace through reconstruction and reconciliation, US Foreign Policy and Defense Strategy offers unique insights into the links between military and commercial power as it charts the rise of a historical rarity: the incidental superpower. This accessibly written book is suitable for students and general readers as well as scholars.

Recenzijos

Perfect for both the undergraduate and graduate classroom, since all its chapters include comprehensive, unbiased, concise, and quite readable reviews of the major concepts and debates regarding the subjects they cover. * H-Diplo * Despite having multiple authors, the book is not merely a compilation of their respective writings on related subjects but rather a well-integrated and superbly researched study. . . . The strength of the arguments presented in the book will not fade with time but will continue to be a scholarly source for understanding how the United States historically managed the challenges of being a superpower. . . . I highly recommend this book. * Strategic Studies Quarterly * An extremely useful compendium of the origins and fundamentals of . . . American global hegemony. * Classics of Strategy *

Daugiau informacijos

Reveron, Gvosdev, and Owens have produced a very useful, stimulating, and timely survey of US foreign and national security policy, offering fresh insight into both the American way of war and the American way of peace. Touching on everything from political culture and finance to military organization, they rightly suggest America's world role has been incidental, rather than accidental-that while US involvement overseas has often been ad hoc and reactive, it is nevertheless driven by certain enduring national interests. Highly recommended. -- Colin Dueck, associate professor in the School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs , George Mason University US Foreign Policy and Defense Strategy is a must-read for all policymakers and scholars who influence the debate about the American role in international affairs. Drawing on a wealth of expertise and sound analysis ... this immensely important book helps modern audiences consider how the United States is likely to confront new challenges in the world. -- William Martel, author of Victory in War: Foundations of Modern Strategy and associate professor of International Security Studies at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
List of Illustrations
vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1(14)
1 From Regional Power to Global Superpower
15(30)
2 The American Way of Organizing for Defense
45(35)
3 The American Way of Civil-Military Relations
80(29)
4 Drivers, Continuities, and Challenges of US Foreign Policy
109(26)
5 The American Way of Warfare
135(32)
6 The American Way of Peace
167(35)
7 Financing the American Way
202(24)
8 Conclusion: The Future of US Foreign Policy and Defense Strategy
226(25)
About the Authors 251(2)
Index 253
Derek S. Reveron is a professor of national security affairs and the EMC Informationist Chair at the US Naval War College. He is the author or editor of several books including Cyberspace and National Security: Threats, Opportunities, and Power in a Virtual World. Nikolas K. Gvosdev is a professor of national security affairs at the US Naval War College and currently serves as the director of the Policy Analysis subcourse in the National Security Affairs Department. He is the author or editor of several books including Russian Foreign Policy: Interests, Vectors, and Sectors.Mackubin Thomas Owens is the editor of Orbis, the quarterly journal of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and former professor of national security affairs at the US Naval War College. He is the author of US Civil-Military Relations after 9/11: Renegotiating the Civil-Military Bargain.