Entangling Alliances With None

Author : Lawrence S. Kaplan
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0873383478

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Entangling Alliances with None by Lawrence S. Kaplan Pdf

Written over a thirty-year period, the essays included in this volume develop one central theme: the completion of American isolationism in the formative years of the nation. Isolationism, in Kaplan's view, is not to be taken as economic or cultural independence but as abstention from political or military obligations to Europe, from alliances or from purposeful entanglement in the European balance of power. This study focuses on the assertion that Thomas Jefferson was central to the making of American foreign policy from the Revolution to 1803. But Kaplan's view is not always supportive of Jefferson. In fact, Kaplan believes the collection has a "Hamiltonian flavor," although he does not necessarily consider himself a Hamiltonian either. Kaplan is critical of Jefferson and points clearly to the error of his belief that France could be a counterweight to British power. In the short run Hamilton appears more realistic, but in the long run Jefferson's vision for the country proved wiser and sounder.

Author : Lawrence S. Kaplan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0608080780

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Entangling Alliances with None by Lawrence S. Kaplan Pdf

Author : Robert H. Elias
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0393341933

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Entangling Alliances with None by Robert H. Elias Pdf

Author : Jason W. Davidson
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781647120290

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America's Entangling Alliances by Jason W. Davidson Pdf

A challenge to long-held assumptions about the costs and benefits of America’s allies. Since the Revolutionary War, the United States has entered into dozens of alliances with international powers to protect its assets and advance its security interests. America’s Entangling Alliances offers a corrective to long-held assumptions about US foreign policy and is relevant to current public and academic debates about the costs and benefits of America’s allies. Author Jason W. Davidson examines these alliances to shed light on their nature and what they reveal about the evolution of American power. He challenges the belief that the nation resists international alliances, showing that this has been true in practice only when using a narrow definition of alliance. While there have been more alliances since World War II than before it, US presidents and Congress have viewed it in the country’s best interest to enter into a variety of security arrangements over virtually the entire course of the country’s history. By documenting thirty-four alliances—categorized as defense pacts, military coalitions, or security partnerships—Davidson finds that the US demand for allies is best explained by looking at variance in its relative power and the threats it has faced.

Author : Charles A. Kupchan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199393244

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Isolationism by Charles A. Kupchan Pdf

The first book to tell the full story of American isolationism, from the founding era through the Trump presidency. In his Farewell Address of 1796, President George Washington admonished the young nation "to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world." Isolationism thereafter became one of the most influential political trends in American history. From the founding era until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States shunned strategic commitments abroad, making only brief detours during the Spanish-American War and World War I. Amid World War II and the Cold War, Americans abandoned isolationism; they tried to run the world rather than run away from it. But isolationism is making a comeback as Americans tire of foreign entanglement. In this definitive and magisterial analysis-the first book to tell the fascinating story of isolationism across the arc of American history-Charles Kupchan explores the enduring connection between the isolationist impulse and the American experience. He also refurbishes isolationism's reputation, arguing that it constituted dangerous delusion during the 1930s, but afforded the nation clear strategic advantages during its ascent. Kupchan traces isolationism's staying power to the ideology of American exceptionalism. Strategic detachment from the outside world was to protect the nation's unique experiment in liberty, which America would then share with others through the power of example. Since 1941, the United States has taken a much more interventionist approach to changing the world. But it has overreached, prompting Americans to rediscover the allure of nonentanglement and an America First foreign policy. The United States is hardly destined to return to isolationism, yet a strategic pullback is inevitable. Americans now need to find the middle ground between doing too much and doing too little.

Author : Scott L. Bills,E. Timothy Smith
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0873385632

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The Romance of History by Scott L. Bills,E. Timothy Smith Pdf

A collection of articles and essays reflecting the varied professional interests of diplomatic historian Lawrence Kaplan. Drawn largely from Kaplan's former students - now scholars in their own right - there are also contributions from senior colleagues.

Author : David A. Lake
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0691059918

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Entangling Relations by David A. Lake Pdf

Throughout what publisher Henry Luce dubbed the "American century," the United States has wrestled with two central questions. Should it pursue its security unilaterally or in cooperation with others? If the latter, how can its interests be best protected against opportunism by untrustworthy partners? In a major attempt to explain security relations from an institutionalist approach, David A. Lake shows how the answers to these questions have differed after World War I, during the Cold War, and today. In the debate over whether to join the League of Nations, the United States reaffirmed its historic policy of unilateralism. After World War II, however, it broke decisively with tradition and embraced a new policy of cooperation with partners in Europe and Asia. Today, the United States is pursuing a new strategy of cooperation, forming ad hoc coalitions and evincing an unprecedented willingness to shape but then work within the prevailing international consensus on the appropriate goals and means of foreign policy. In interpreting these three defining moments of American foreign policy, Lake draws on theories of relational contracting and poses a general theory of security relationships. He arrays the variety of possible security relationships on a continuum from anarchy to hierarchy, and explains actual relations as a function of three key variables: the benefits from pooling security resources and efforts with others, the expected costs of opportunistic behavior by partners, and governance costs. Lake systematically applies this theory to each of the "defining moments" of twentieth-century American foreign policy and develops its broader implications for the study of international relations.

Author : William Safire
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 887 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780195340617

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Safire's Political Dictionary by William Safire Pdf

Featuring more than one thousand new, rewritten, and updated entries, this reference on American politics explains current terms in politics, economics, and diplomacy.

Author : Thomas Jefferson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1084 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : YALE:39002004978418

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The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia by Thomas Jefferson Pdf

Author : Ralph Keyes
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781429906173

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The Quote Verifier by Ralph Keyes Pdf

Our language is full of hundreds of quotations that are often cited but seldom confirmed. Ralph Keyes's The Quote Verifier considers not only classic misquotes such as "Nice guys finish last," and "Play it again, Sam," but more surprising ones such as "Ain't I a woman?" and "Golf is a good walk spoiled," as well as the origins of popular sayings such as "The opera ain't over till the fat lady sings," "No one washes a rented car," and "Make my day." Keyes's in-depth research routinely confounds widespread assumptions about who said what, where, and when. Organized in easy-to-access dictionary form, The Quote Verifier also contains special sections highlighting commonly misquoted people and genres, such as Yogi Berra and Oscar Wilde, famous last words, and misremembered movie lines. An invaluable resource for not just those with a professional need to quote accurately, but anyone at all who is interested in the roots of words and phrases, The Quote Verifier is not only a fascinating piece of literary sleuthing, but also a great read.

Author : William G. Shade
Publisher : Lehigh University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0934223572

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Revisioning the British Empire in the Eighteenth Century by William G. Shade Pdf

This volume offers eleven essays on colonial British North America and the American Revolution. Part I of the collection includes essays on aspects of the Revolution that reflect Gipson's interests, while the essays in Part II deal with social history.

Author : George Washington
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1290433747

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Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States by George Washington Pdf

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Phillip T. Lohaus
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781640122260

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Power and Complacency by Phillip T. Lohaus Pdf

Introduction -- Russia -- Iran -- China -- The United States -- Conclusions.

Author : Jeffrey J. Malanson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : National characteristics, American
ISBN : 1606352512

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Addressing America by Jeffrey J. Malanson Pdf

Washington's Farewell Address and the development of the early republic In his presidential Farewell Address of 1796, George Washington presented a series of maxims to guide the construction of a wise foreign policy. He believed, as did generations of his adherents, that if the United States stayed true to the principles he discussed, the country would eventually attain national greatness and international respectability. These principles quickly became engrained in the DNA of what it meant to be an American in the first half of the nineteenth century, shaping the formation of U.S. foreign policy, politics, and political culture. The Declaration of Independence affirmed American ideals, the Constitution established American government, and the Farewell Address enabled Americans to understand their country and its place in the world. While the Declaration and Constitution have persisted as foundational documents, our appreciation for the Farewell Address has faded with time. By focusing on the enduring influence of the Farewell Address on nineteenth-century Americans, and on their abiding devotion to Washington, author Jeffrey Malanson brings the Address back into the spotlight for twenty-first-century readers. When citizens gathered in town halls, city commons, and local churches to commemorate Washington, engagement with the Farewell Address was a cornerstone of their celebrations. This annual rededication to Washington's principles made the Farewell Address both a framework for the attainment of national happiness and prosperity and a blueprint for national security, and it resulted in its position as the central text through which citizens of the early republic came to understand the connections between the nation's domestic and foreign ambitions. Through its focus on the diplomatic, political, and cultural impacts of Washington's Farewell Address, Addressing America reasserts the fundamental importance of this critical document to the development of the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Author : Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1990-04-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199879106

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Eloquence in an Electronic Age by Kathleen Hall Jamieson Pdf

In a book that blends anecdote with analysis, Kathleen Hall Jamieson--author of the award-winning Packaging the Presidency--offers a perceptive and often disturbing account of the transformation of political speechmaking. Jamieson addresses such fundamental issues about public speaking as what talents and techniques differentiate eloquent speakers from non-eloquent speakers. She also analyzes the speeches of modern presidents from Truman to Reagan and of political players from Daniel Webster to Mario Cuomo. Ranging from the classical orations of Cicero to Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, this lively, well-documented volume contains a wealth of insight into public speaking, contemporary characteristics of eloquence, and the future of political discourse in America.