National Security and Core Values in American History 1st Edition by William Walker Iii ISBN 052174010X 978-0521740104

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ISBN 10: 052174010X
ISBN 13: 978-0521740104
Author: William Walker Iii

There is no book quite like National Security and Core Values in American History. Drawing upon themes from the whole of the nation’s past, William O. Walker III presents a new interpretation of the history of American exceptionalism, that is, of the basic values and liberties that have given the United States its very identity. He argues that a political economy of expansion and the quest for security led American leaders after 1890 to equate prosperity and safety with global engagement. In so doing, they developed and clung to what Walker calls the “security ethos.” Expressed in successive grand strategies – Wilsonian internationalism, global containment, and strategic globalism – the security ethos ultimately damaged the values citizens cherish most and impaired popular participation in public affairs. Most important, it led to the abuse of executive authority after September 11, 2001, by the administration of President George W. Bush.

National Security and Core Values in American History 1st Table of contents:

PART ONE THE ORIGINS OF THE SECURITY ETHOS, 1688–1919

1 Commerce, Expansion, and Republican Virtue

Independence and Republican Virtue

Empire and the Preservation of Virtue

Industrial America

Conclusion

2 The First National Security State

Creating a Security State

Virtue, Values, and Security

In the Time of Taft and Wilson

The Great War and Core Values

Conclusion

PART TWO INTERNATIONALISM AND CONTAINMENT, 1919–1973

3 The Postwar Era and American Values

Self-Determination, Disarmament, and Core Values

Ingraining the Security Ethos

Security and the Political Economy of Growth

Security, Values, and Radicalism from the New Era to the New Deal

Conclusion

4 The Construction of Global Containment

Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Emergence of American Globalism

New Deal Liberalism, Its Limits, and Critics

Liberty, Globalism, and the National Interest

Conclusion

5 Civic Virtue in Richard Nixon’s America

Subversion, Liberties, and Security in the 1950s

Human Rights, Civil Rights, and the Limits of Self-Determination

The 1960s and the Decline of Civic Virtue

The Chaos of Internal Security Policy

Richard Nixon’s America

Conclusion

PART THREE THE AGE OF STRATEGIC GLOBALISM, 1973–2001

6 Core Values and Strategic Globalism through 1988

The Resilience of Détente

Strategic Globalism and Containment Capitalism

The Politics of Human Rights

Security Assets and American Values

Ronald Reagan and the Illusion of Exceptionalism

The Soviet Union, the Democracy Project, and U.S. Hegemony

Conclusion

7 The False Promise of a New World Order

The Illusion of American Preeminence

Drug Control and Democracy in Latin America

Panama and Iraq as Security Assets

Afghanistan and the Limits of American Power

Conclusion

8 Globalization and Militarism

Hegemony and Globalization

Human Security

Coercing Colombia

Oil and Strategic Globalism

Conclusion

PART FOUR THE BUSH DOCTRINE

9 The War on Terror and Core Values

Political Economy and Grand Strategy

The Bush Doctrine

The Professoriate and the Bush Doctrine

The Bush Administration and Core Values

Coda

Conclusion: The Security Ethos and Civic Virtue

Right-Wing Authoritarians

Progenitors of Progressive Civic Virtue

The Balance Sheet

Select Bibliography

U.S. Government Documents

Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, DC

Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, West Branch, Iowa

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Boston, Massachusetts

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library, Austin, Texas

United Nations

Electronic Records

Addresses

U.S. Government Documents

United Nations

Miscellaneous

Published Memoirs, Papers, Writing, and Other Records

Newspapers and News Services

Books and Articles

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