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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460335003321

Autore

Fordham Benjamin O

Titolo

Building the Cold War consensus [[electronic resource] ] : the political economy of U.S. national security policy, 1949-51 / / Benjamin O. Fordham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, 2001, c1998

ISBN

1-282-63887-4

9786612638879

0-472-02337-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (276 p.)

Disciplina

327.73/009/045

Soggetti

National security - United States - History - 20th century

Internal security - United States - History - 20th century

Cold War

Electronic books.

United States Foreign relations 1945-1953

United States Politics and government 1945-1953

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-251) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

The domestic political economy and U.S. national security policy -- The politics of rearmament in the executive branch I : the fiscal 1951 budget -- The politics of rearmament in the executive branch II : NSC 68 and rearmament -- The political and economic sources of divergent foreign policy preferences in the Senate, 1949-51 -- The conflictual politics of consensus building I : Korea, rearmament, and the end of the Fair Deal -- The conflictual politics of consensus building II : the development of the internal security program -- The conflictual politics of consensus building III : rearmament and the red scare -- Conclusion : domestic politics and theories of national security policy.