This work advocates a new variant of isolationism, a "national strategy" confining US military actions largely to North America and to neighbouring sea and air-lanes but encouraging international activism and engagement in nonsecurity realms. In Nordlinger's view, disengaging from security commitments on distant shores would liberate the United States to use its resources and decision-making powers to act more effectively abroad in matters of economic policy and human rights. A national strategy would then become a powerful new method of encouraging international ideals of democracy, and isolationism would be freed of its previous associations with appeasement, weakness, economic protectionism, and self-serving nationalism. Nordlinger draws on the recent historical record to show that a national strategy would have lessened the perils of earlier decades, those of the Cold War. While real dangers did exist during this period, engaged strategies, such as containment, too often exacerbated them. He argues that the United States could have effectively and far less expensively helped to deter Communist aggression in Europe and Asia by encouraging other nations to make larger investments in their own protection.
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A stimulating and wellargued work.... Even those who continue to disagree with Nordlinger after reading the book will be made to rethink and deepen their own ideas.
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THIS BOOK develops a national security strategy and compares it with the security designs of strategic internationalism in both its adversarial and conciliatory variants. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
conciliatory internationalism, strategic internationalism, concurrent foreign policy, concurrent dispensation, adversarial internationalism, security deflations, minimal activism, conciliatory engagement, historical isolationists, strategic immunity, strategic isolationism, alternative security strategies, geopolitical momentum, perceived resolve, idealistic activism, adversarial policies, reassuring impact, core perimeter, nuclear spread, foreign policy culture, expansive actions, strategic disengagement, activist measures, international ideals, military configuration Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Soviet Union, Third World, Western Europe, Persian Gulf, Eastern Europe, United Nations, Warsaw Pact, South Korea, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Latin America, Security Council, Southeast Asia, War Powers Resolution, Central America, North Korea, Red Army, West Germany, European Community, Saddam Hussein, South Vietnam, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Pearl Harbor New!
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conciliatory internationalism, strategic internationalism, concurrent foreign policy, concurrent dispensation, adversarial internationalism, security deflations, minimal activism, conciliatory engagement, historical isolationists, strategic immunity, strategic isolationism, alternative security strategies, geopolitical momentum, perceived resolve, idealistic activism, adversarial policies, reassuring impact, core perimeter, nuclear spread, foreign policy culture, expansive actions, strategic disengagement, activist measures, international ideals, military configuration Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Soviet Union, Third World, Western Europe, Persian Gulf, Eastern Europe, United Nations, Warsaw Pact, South Korea, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Latin America, Security Council, Southeast Asia, War Powers Resolution, Central America, North Korea, Red Army, West Germany, European Community, Saddam Hussein, South Vietnam, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Pearl Harbor New!
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