US economic statecraft for survival, 1933-1991 : of sanctions, embargoes, and economic warfare / / Alan P. Dobson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783947903321
• Autore: Dobson Alan P.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2002
• ISBN: 0-429-23090-7; 1-138-87443-4; 1-134-46078-3; 1-280-04872-7; 0-203-40206-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (402 p.)
• Collana: Routledge advances in international relations and politics ; ; 18
• Disciplina: 337.73
• Soggetti: Economic sanctions, American - History - 20th century; Embargo - History - 20th century; Foreign trade regulation - United States; United States Commercial policy History 20th century; United States Foreign economic relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p [355]-364) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Dedication; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Economic statecraft; 2 The Practice: Economic Statecraft and US Foreign Policy; 3 Transforming Policy: From Peace to War 1933-42; 4 The Demise of Neutrality and the Development of Economic Instruments of Coercion; 5 The Truman Administration and the Development of Strategic Embargo Policy; 6 Eisenhower: Problems with Colleagues and Problems with Allies; 7 Thinking about Change: The Kennedy and Johnson Administrations; 8 Economics becomed High Politics: Constructing the Base and Building up Détente, 1969-749 Ford and Carter: The Decline of Détente and the Approach of the Second Cold War 1974-9; 10 Through the Second Gold War to Liberation; 11 Economic Statecraft: Theoretical Considerations; 12 Concluding Thoughts; Notes; Primary Sources and Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: How have US economic defence policies promoted its security since 1933?US Policies of Economic Warfare, 1933-1991 concentrates on an important and neglected facet of America's fight for survival in the latter half of the twentieth century. It explains how US policy-makers crafted and used instruments of economic statecraft against states that posed vital threats to the survival of the USA. This study situates economic defence policy within the broad context of US foreign policy and explores its response to the totalitarianism of the 1930s, the Second World War and the complex stra