National Security and Core Values in American History

Name: National Security and Core Values in American History
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ISBN: 9780521740104

ISBN-10: 052174010X

ISBN-13: 9780521740104

Edition: 2009

Authors: William O. Walker III

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There is no book quite like Core Values and National Security in American History. Drawing upon themes from the whole of the nation's past, William O. Walker III presents a new interpretation of the history of American exceptionalism, that is, of the basic values and liberties that have given the United States its very identity. He argues that a political economy of expansion and the quest for security led American leaders after 1890 to equate prosperity and safety with global engagement. In so doing, they developed and clung to what Walker calls the "security ethos." Expressed in successive grand strategies - Wilsonian internationalism, global containment, and strategic globalism - the…

Book details

List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/6/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 366
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



Preface and Acknowledgments


Introduction: "A City upon a Hill"



The Origins of the Security Ethos, 1688-1919



Commerce, Expansion, and Republican Virtue



The First National Security State



Internationalism and Containment, 1919-1973



The Postwar Era and American Values



The Construction of Global Containment



Civic Virtue in Richard Nixon's America



The Age of Strategic Globalism, 1973-2001



Core Values and Strategic Globalism through 1988



The False Promise of a New World Order



Globalization and Militarism



The Bush Doctrine



The War on Terror and Core Values


Conclusion The Security Ethos and Civic Virtue


Select Bibliography


Index