LEADER 04737nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910957891703321 005 20171026195700.0 010 $a9786612638879 010 $a9781282638877 010 $a1282638874 010 $a9780472023370 010 $a0472023373 024 7 $a10.3998/mpub.15697 035 $a(CKB)2670000000040602 035 $a(OCoLC)651663929 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10395625 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000413320 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11258048 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000413320 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10381105 035 $a(PQKB)10745711 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3414885 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse9697 035 $a(MiU)10.3998/mpub.15697 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3414885 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10395625 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL263887 035 $a(OCoLC)923503157 035 $a(BIP)47534513 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000040602 100 $a19971126h20011998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBuilding the Cold War consensus $ethe political economy of U.S. national security policy, 1949-51 /$fBenjamin O. Fordham 210 1$aAnn Arbor :$cUniversity of Michigan Press,$d2001, c1998. 215 $a1 online resource (276 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780472108879 311 08$a0472108875 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 207-251) and indexes. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aIn 1950, the U.S. military budget more than tripled while plans for a national health care system and other new social welfare programs disappeared from the agenda. At the same time, the official campaign against the influence of radicals in American life reached new heights. Benjamin Fordham suggests that these domestic and foreign policy outcomes are closely related. The Truman administration's efforts to fund its ambitious and expensive foreign policy required it to sacrifice much of its domestic agenda and acquiesce to conservative demands for a campaign against radicals in the labor movement and elsewhere. Using a statistical analysis of the economic sources of support and opposition to the Truman Administration's foreign policy, and a historical account of the crucial period between the summer of 1949 and the winter of 1951, Fordham integrates the political struggle over NSC 68, the decision to intervene in the Korean War, and congressional debates over the Fair Deal, McCarthyism and military spending. The Truman Administration's policy was politically successful not only because it appealed to internationally oriented sectors of the U.S. economy, but also because it was linked to domestic policies favored by domestically oriented, labor-sensitive sectors that would otherwise have opposed it. This interpretation of Cold War foreign policy will interest political scientists and historians concerned with the origins of the Cold War, American social welfare policy, McCarthyism, and the Korean War, and the theoretical argument it advances will be of interest broadly to scholars of U.S. foreign policy, American politics, and international relations theory. Benjamin O. Fordham is Assistant Professor of Political Science, State University of New York at Albany. 606 $aNational security$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aInternal security$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCold War 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1945-1953 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1945-1953 615 0$aNational security$xHistory 615 0$aInternal security$xHistory 615 0$aCold War. 676 $a327.73/009/045 700 $aFordham$b Benjamin O$01868179 712 02$aMichigan Publishing (University of Michigan) 801 0$bMiU 801 1$bMiU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910957891703321 996 $aBuilding the Cold War consensus$94476029 997 $aUNINA