The American way of peace : an interpretation / / Jan S. Prybyla
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| Autore: |
Prybyla Jan S
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| Titolo: |
The American way of peace : an interpretation / / Jan S. Prybyla
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| Pubblicazione: | Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2005 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 327.73/009/045 |
| Soggetto topico: | Peace-building - United States |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Foreign relations 1945-1989 |
| United States Foreign relations 1989- | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-236) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- I Then (1945-1991) -- 1 Pax Americana -- 2 The Postwar Task -- 3 Bretton Woods -- 4 The Marshall Plan and Containment -- 5 German Wirtschaftswunder -- 6 The Berlin Blockade -- 7 The Truman Doctrine -- 8 NATO and Its Cross of Lorraine -- 9 The Korean War -- 10 The Hungarian Revolution and the Berlin Wall -- 11 The Cuban Missile Crisis and Nikita Khrushchev -- 12 The Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia and the Brezhnev Doctrine -- 13 Cultural Shift -- 14 Détente -- 15 Eurocommunism -- 16 Negotiated Cold War -- 17 The Errors of Socialism -- 18 Ronald Reagan and His Critics -- 19 Solidarity -- 20 Gorbachev and His Nemesis -- 21 The Fall of the Berlin Wall and Reunification of Germany -- 22 The End of an Era -- II And Now (1991-2004) -- 23 After the Fall -- 24 After the Wall -- 25 Drifting Apart -- 26 Aggregation -- 27 Disaggregation -- 28 Chinese Shadows -- 29 9/11 and the War on Terrorism -- 30 Lessons -- Appendix Modernization and Modernity in the Process of Economic Growth and Development -- Notes -- Index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "Traces the development and implementation of Pax Americana, the American way of peace, from World War II to the war on terrorism and the Iraqi conflict. Examines the extent to which modernization must incorporate values of democracy and rule of law"--Provided by publisher. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The American way of peace |
| ISBN: | 0-8262-6480-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910816600703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Eric Voegelin Institute series in political philosophy.