Preventive War and American Democracy

ISBN-13: 9780415952293 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 262 str.

Scott A. Silverstone

Opis

This volume explores the preventive war option in American foreign policy, from the early Cold War strategic problems created by the growth of Soviet and Chinese power, to the post-Cold War fears of a nuclear-armed North Korea, Iraq and Iran.

Spis treści

1. The Preventive War Temptation versus the Anti-Preventive War Norm  2. Preventing a Soviet Atomic Power Shift  3. Truman Rejects Preventive War  4. Eisenhower and the Growth of Soviet and Chinese Power, 1953-1955  5. The Cuba Crisis of 1962  6. Coercive Anti-Proliferation: From China 1964 to North Korea 1994  7. Conclusion: The Iraq War of 2003

O autorze

Scott Silverstone is Associate Professor of International Relations at the United States Military Academy, West Point. He is also the author of Divided Union: The Politics of War in the Early American Republic (Cornell, 2004). A former naval officer, he received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999.