William O Walker

Core Values and National Security in American History

• Broschiertes 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: 6. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780521740104
• ISBN-10: 052174010X
• Artikelnr.: 26032694

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.