Reluctant crusaders : power, culture, and change in American grand strategy
In Reluctant Crusaders, Colin Dueck examines patterns of change and continuity in American foreign policy strategy by looking at four major turning points: the periods following World War I, World War II, the Cold War, and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He shows how American cultural assumptions regarding liberal foreign policy goals, together with international pressures, have acted to push and pull U.S. policy in competing directions over time. The result is a book that combines an appreciation for the role of both power and culture in international affairs. The centerpiece of Dueck's book is h
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Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., ©2006
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Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: Change and Continuity in American Grand Strategy; CHAPTER ONE: Power, Culture, and Grand Strategy; CHAPTER TWO: Strategic Culture and Strategic Adjustment in the United States; CHAPTER THREE: The Lost Alliance: Ideas and Alternatives in American Grand Strategy, 1918-1921; CHAPTER FOUR: Conceiving Containment: Ideas and Alternatives in American Grand Strategy, 1945-1951; CHAPTER FIVE: Hegemony on the Cheap: Ideas and Alternatives in American Grand Strategy, 1992-2000; CONCLUSION: The American Strategic Dilemma; Notes; Index
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