In the Shadow of the Garrison State America's Anti-Statism and Its Cold War Grand Strategy

Name: In the Shadow of the Garrison State America's Anti-Statism and Its Cold War Grand Strategy
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ISBN: 9780691048901

ISBN-10: 0691048908

ISBN-13: 9780691048901

Edition: 2000

Authors: Aaron L. Friedberg

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War--or the threat of war--usually strengthens states as governments tax, draft soldiers, exert control over industrial production, and dampen internal dissent in order to build military might. The United States, however, was founded on the suspicion of state power, a suspicion that continued to gird its institutional architecture and inform the sentiments of many of its politicians and citizens through the twentieth century. In this comprehensive rethinking of postwar political history, Aaron Friedberg convincingly argues that such anti-statist inclinations prevented Cold War anxieties from transforming the United States into the garrison state it might have become in their absence.…

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List price: $53.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 4/16/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.17" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Aaron L. Friedberg is a professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School and a former deputy assistant for national security affairs in the Office of the Vice President. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.



List of Figures and Tables


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Statism, Anti-Statism, and American Political Development



The Cold War Founding



The American Strategic Synthesis



Money



Manpower



Supporting Industries



Arms



Technology



Conclusions


Index