Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism : : U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security, 1920-2015 / / Melvyn P. Leffler.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Leffler, Melvyn P.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.)

Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism gathers together decades of writing by Melvyn Leffler, one of the most respected historians of American foreign policy, to address important questions about U.S. national security policy from the end of World War I to the global war on terror. Why did the United St...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• PREFACE
• Introduction: Embracing Complexity
• 1. The Origins of Republican War Debt Policy, 1921- 1923: A Case Study in the Applicability of the Open Door Interpretation
• 2. Herbert Hoover, the "New Era," and American Foreign Policy, 1921- 1929
• 3. Political Isolationism, Economic Expansionism, or Diplomatic Realism: American Policy toward Western Europe, 1921- 1933
• 4. The American Conception of National Security and the Beginnings of the Cold War, 1945- 1948
• 5. Strategy, Diplomacy, and the Cold War: The United States, Turkey, and NATO, 1945- 1952
• 6. Adherence to Agreements: Yalta and the Experiences of the Early Cold War
• 7. Victory: The "State," the "West," and the Cold War
• 8. Dreams of Freedom, Temptations of Power
• 9. 9/11 and American Foreign Policy
• 10. Austerity and U.S. Strategy: Lessons of the Past
• 11. National Security
• INDEX
• A NOTE ON THE TYPE