Isolationism Reconfigured American Foreign Policy for a New Century

Name: Isolationism Reconfigured American Foreign Policy for a New Century
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ISBN: 9780691029214

ISBN-10: 0691029210

ISBN-13: 9780691029214

Edition: 1996

Authors: Eric Nordlinger, Eric A. Nordlinger

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This iconoclastic and fundamental work, Eric Nordlinger's last, advocates a new variant of isolationism, a "national strategy" confining U.S. military actions largely to North America and to neighboring sea-and air- lanes but encouraging international activism and engagement in nonsecurity realms. In Nordlinger's view, disengaging from security commitments on distant shores would liberate the United States to use its resources and decision-making powers to act more effectively abroad in matters of economic policy and human rights. A national strategy would then become a powerful new method of encouraging international ideals of democracy, and isolationism would be freed of its previous…

Book details

List price: $63.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 8/25/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.17" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



Foreword and Acknowledgments



Introduction



A National Strategy: Contemporary Contours and the Historical Record



America's Strategic Immunity



Tailoring Policies to Intentions: Problematics and Hazards



Maximizing Deterrence, Defense, and Economic Security



Maximizing Conciliation: Reassuring the Challenger



Minimizing Strategic Mismanagement: Avoiding Inadvertent Security Deflations



America's International Ideals



The National Welfare



Liberal, Constitutional, and Legal Ideals



An American Foreign Policy


Notes


Index