America''s Search for Security - The Triumph of Idealism and the Return of Realism

In America's Search for Security, Sean Kay surveys major historical trends in American foreign policy and provides a new context for thinking about America's rise to power from the founding period through the end of the Cold War. It details the post-Cold War rise of idealist foreign policy goals and the costs of abandoning realist roots, analyzing in-depth the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as examples of what disappointing, if not disastrous, outcomes can befall America abroad when foreign policy objectives are muddied, unclear, and fail to remain grounded in what historically has made America an unquestionable world power.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. The Triumph of Idealism and the Return of Realism

2. The Eagle Rises

3. The Cold War

4. Realism and the End of the Cold War: From Vietnam to Reagan

5. The Liberal and Neoconservative Consensus

6. The Costs of Imbalance: The Iraq and Afghan Wars

7. Realigning American Power: The Asia Pivot

8. The Politics of Foreign and Defense Policy

9. America's Search for Security in the Twenty-First Century

Index
About the Author

About the author

By Sean Kay

Product details

• Authors: Sean Kay, Kay Sean
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 18 to 22
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.07.2014
• EAN: 9781442225633
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-2563-3
• No. of pages: 330
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, International Relations, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United States of America, USA, C 1700 To C 1800