A Nation of Adversaries
Author | : Patrick M. Garry |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2013-11-11 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1489966048 |
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Author | : Patrick M. Garry |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2013-11-11 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1489966048 |
Author | : Pamela Constable |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1993-05-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393309850 |
An account of the polarization of Chilean society under Augusto Pinochet and of Chile's return to democratic government.
Author | : Jennifer N. Brass |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2016-08-18 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 110716298X |
This book explores how rise of NGOs in developing countries has affected service provision, governance, state-society relations, and state development.
Author | : Mark A. Stoler |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2004-07-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807862304 |
During World War II the uniformed heads of the U.S. armed services assumed a pivotal and unprecedented role in the formulation of the nation's foreign policies. Organized soon after Pearl Harbor as the Joint Chiefs of Staff, these individuals were officially responsible only for the nation's military forces. During the war their functions came to encompass a host of foreign policy concerns, however, and so powerful did the military voice become on those issues that only the president exercised a more decisive role in their outcome. Drawing on sources that include the unpublished records of the Joint Chiefs as well as the War, Navy, and State Departments, Mark Stoler analyzes the wartime rise of military influence in U.S. foreign policy. He focuses on the evolution of and debates over U.S. and Allied global strategy. In the process, he examines military fears regarding America's major allies--Great Britain and the Soviet Union--and how those fears affected President Franklin D. Roosevelt's policies, interservice and civil-military relations, military-academic relations, and postwar national security policy as well as wartime strategy.
Author | : Thomas J. Christensen |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2020-05-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0691213321 |
This book provides a new analysis of why relations between the United States and the Chinese Communists were so hostile in the first decade of the Cold War. Employing extensive documentation, it offers a fresh approach to long-debated questions such as why Truman refused to recognize the Chinese Communists, why the United States aided Chiang Kai-shek's KMT on Taiwan, why the Korean War escalated into a Sino-American conflict, and why Mao shelled islands in the Taiwan Straits in 1958, thus sparking a major crisis with the United States. Christensen first develops a novel two-level approach that explains why leaders manipulate low-level conflicts to mobilize popular support for expensive, long-term security strategies. By linking "grand strategy," domestic politics, and the manipulation of ideology and conflict, Christensen provides a nuanced and sophisticated link between domestic politics and foreign policy. He then applies the approach to Truman's policy toward the Chinese Communists in 1947-50 and to Mao's initiation of the 1958 Taiwan Straits Crisis. In these cases the extension of short-term conflict was useful in gaining popular support for the overall grand strategy that each leader was promoting domestically: Truman's limited-containment strategy toward the USSR and Mao's self-strengthening programs during the Great Leap Forward. Christensen also explores how such low-level conflicts can escalate, as they did in Korea, despite leaders' desire to avoid actual warfare.
Author | : John C. Fredriksen |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 2001-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1576076040 |
This work chronicles the lives and accomplishments of over 200 enemies who have fought, plotted, spied on, and in some instances defeated U.S. forces over the past three centuries. Books on American military heroes abound. But this book is the first to focus on America's talented enemies—the generals, admirals, Indian chiefs and warriors, submarine captains, fighter pilots, and spies who opposed the United States with military force or other means. Often these military leaders were among the best minds of their times. For more than two centuries, the new nation's most constant military opponents were the Native Americans, led by such capable chiefs as American Horse and Little Wolf. Under D'Iberville, Canada's French colonialists became formidable foes, but they were soon surpassed by the rigorously disciplined redcoats of Great Britain under Howe and Cornwallis. Ironically, the most effective enemies in the history of the United States were not the leaders of foreign military forces—like Mexico's Santa Anna, Japan's Yamamoto, or Vietnam's Vo Nguyen Giap. They arose from among its own citizens during the Civil War, the bloodiest conflict in American history.
Author | : Michael Balfour |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2022-12-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1000805026 |
The Adversaries (1981) examines the post-war world that both the US and the Soviet Union tried to mould in their own images. Their faith in their respective systems came at the cost of a political, economic and military clashing in various parts of the world, an antagonism that rendered the United Nations ineffective as an organ of world government. This book analyses these clashes, as the foreign policy decisions of both superpowers had wide-ranging effects over large portions of the globe.
Author | : John Ghazvinian |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 688 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307271811 |
"A history of the relationship between Iran and America from the 1700s through the current day"--
Author | : Ann Louise Wagner |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780252065903 |
Whether in the private parlor, public hall, commercial "dance palace," or sleazy dive, dance has long been opposed by those who viewed it as immoral--more precisely as being a danger to the purity of those who practiced it, particularly women. In Adversaries of Dance, Ann Wagner presents a major study of opposition to dance over a period of four centuries in what is now the United States. Wagner bases her work on the thesis that the tradition of opposition to dance "derived from white, male, Protestant clergy and evangelists who argued from a narrow and selective interpretation of biblical passages," and that the opposition thrived when denominational dogma held greater power over people's lives and when women's social roles were strictly limited. Central to Wagner's work, which will be welcomed by scholars of both religion and dance, are issues of gender, race, and socioeconomic status. "There are no other works that even begin to approach this definitive accomplishment." --Amanda Porterfield, author of Female Piety in Puritan New England
Author | : Paul Kengor |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 614 |
Release | : 2023-06-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1684516110 |
In this startling, intensively researched book, bestselling historian Paul Kengor shines light on a deeply troubling aspect of American history: the prominent role of the "dupe." From the Bolshevik Revolution through the Cold War and right up to the present, many progressives have unwittingly aided some of America's most dangerous opponents. Based on never-before-published FBI files, Soviet archives, and other primary sources, Dupes exposes the legions of liberals who have furthered the objectives of America's adversaries. Kengor shows not only how such dupes contributed to history's most destructive ideology—Communism, which claimed at least 100 million lives—but also why they are so relevant to today's politics.