America's search for security the triumph of idealism and the return of realism

This book details the ways in which America's ascendancy to global superpower status was the result of its dueling foreign policy philosophies and forces: an historically expansive idealism balanced with an equally constant realist restraint.

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Main Author: Kay, Sean 1967- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland Rowman & Littlefield [2014]
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Table of Contents:
  • The triumph of liberalism and the return of realism
  • The eagle rises
  • The cold war
  • Realism and the end of the cold war : from Vietnam to Reagan
  • The liberal and neoconservative consensus
  • The costs of imbalance : the iraq and Afghan wars
  • Realigning American power : the Asia pivot
  • The politics of foreign and defense policy
  • America's search for security in the twenty-first century