National security and core values in American history
By: William O. Walker III.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780521518598; 9780521740104
Subjects: National security -- United States; United States -- Foreign relations; United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Commerce, expansion, and republican virtue; title: The first national security state; title: The postwar era and American values; title: The construction of global containment; title: Civic virtue in Richard Nixon's America; title: Core values and strategic globalism through 1988; title: The false promise of a new world order; title: Globalization and militarism; title: The war on terror and core values; title: Conclusion: the security ethos and civic virtue.