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Activism
Anti-communism
Anti-imperialism
Appeasement
Armed neutrality
Arms control
Assured destruction
Author_Eric A. Nordlinger
Author_Eric Nordlinger
Bandwagoning
Category=JPS
Cold War
Cold War (1985-91)
Containment
Contras
Counterforce
Covert operation
Defensive war
Demobilization
Deterrence theory
Embargo
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Evil empire
Expansionism
Export restriction
Finlandization
Flexible response
Foreign policy
Foreign policy of the United States
Great power
Gulf War
Imperial overstretch
Imperialism
Infant industry
Insurgency
Isolationism
John Mearsheimer
John Mueller
Liberal internationalism
Liberalism
Military alliance
Military dictatorship
Missile gap
Mutual assured destruction
National Policy
National security
Non-interventionism
North American Free Trade Agreement
Nuclear warfare
Nuclear weapon
Oil embargo
Pacifism
Police action
Power politics
Reagan Doctrine
Relative gain (international relations)
Rollback
Sanctions against Iraq
Second strike
Security dilemma
Sedition Act of 1918
Soviet Union
Soviet Union-United States relations
Superiority (short story)
Theory of International Politics
Third World
Total war
Trade barrier
Un-American
Unilateralism
War
War Powers Resolution
Warfare
World War II
Product details
- ISBN 9780691029214
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 25 Aug 1996
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This iconoclastic and fundamental work, Eric Nordlinger's last, advocates a new variant of isolationism, a "national strategy" confining U.S. military actions largely to North America and to neighboring 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, including those of the Cold War. While real dangers did exist during this period, engaged strategies, such as containment, too often exacerbated them.
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. Marshaling impressive empirical evidence in defense of a controversial position, this final work by a leading scholar of international affairs is essential reading for scholars, practitioners, and lay readers alike.
Eric A. Nordlinger (1939-1994) was Professor of Political Science at Brown University and an Associate at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University. His works include On The Autonomy of the Democratic State and Soldiers in Politics.
