William O. Walker

Core Values and National Security in American History

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing upon themes from the nation's past, William O. Walker III presents a new interpretation of the history of American exceptionalism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 682g
• ISBN-13: 9780521518598
• ISBN-10: 0521518598
• Artikelnr.: 26526270

Autorenporträt

William O. Walker III has taught at California State University, Sacramento; Ohio Wesleyan University; Florida International University; and the University of Toronto. He is the author of Drug Control in the Americas (1981, revised edition 1989) and Opium and Foreign Policy: The Anglo-American Search for Order in Asia, 1912¿1954 (1991). He has also edited or co-edited several books, including Drugs in the Western Hemisphere: An Odyssey of Cultures in Conflict (1996), and his articles have appeared in Pacific Historical Review, the Journal of American History, Diplomatic History, and NACLA Report on the Americas.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Origins of the Security Ethos, 1688
1919: 1. Commerce, expansion, and republican virtue; 2. The first national security state; Part II. Internationalism and Containment, 1919
1973: 3. The postwar era and American values; 4. The construction of global containment; 5. Civic virtue in Richard Nixon's America; Part III. The Age of Strategic Globalism, 1973
2001: 6. Core values and strategic globalism through 1988; 7. The false promise of a new world order; 8. Globalization and militarism; Part IV. The Bush Doctrine: 9. The war on terror and core values; Conclusion: The security ethos and civic virtue.