American Way of Strategy U. S. Foreign Policy and the American Way of Life

Name: American Way of Strategy U. S. Foreign Policy and the American Way of Life
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ISBN: 9780195341416

ISBN-10: 0195341414

ISBN-13: 9780195341416

Edition: 2006

Authors: Michael Lind

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In The American Way of Strategy, Lind argues that the goal of U.S. foreign policy has always been the preservation of the American way of life--embodied in civilian government, checks and balances, a commercial economy, and individual freedom. Lind describes how successive American statesmen--from George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton to Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan--have pursued an American way of strategy that minimizes the dangers of empire and anarchy by two means: liberal internationalism and realism. At its best, the American way of strategy is a well-thought-out and practical guide designed to preserve a peaceful and demilitarized…

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List price: $20.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/30/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 8.70" wide x 5.59" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.880

Michael Lind, a senior fellow of the New America Foundation lives in Washington, D.C.



Acknowledgments



America's Purpose



Defending the American Way of Life



The American Way of Strategy



A World Safe for American Democracy



Independence, Unity, and the American Way of Life



Averting a Balance of Power in North America: Power Politics and American Expansion



Why the United States Fought in World War I



World War II and the American Way of Life



The Cold War



The Cold Peace



The Future of the American Way of Strategy



U.S. Hegemony and the American Way of Life



A Concert of Power



American Strategy in the Asian Century



The American Way of Military Strategy



The American Way of Trade



The World Order Which We Seek


Notes


Index