A Case Study in Peacetime Mobilization Planning
Author: United States. National Security Resources Board
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Published: 1953
Total Pages: 188
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Author: United States. National Security Resources Board
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Published: 1953
Total Pages: 188
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States President of the United States
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Published: 1953
Total Pages: 188
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. President
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Published: 1953
Total Pages: 172
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ira Katznelson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2018-06-05
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 0691188270
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the twenty-first century, globalization poses major challenges to the key players in U.S. domestic politics--challenges similar to many that Americans have faced from abroad since the nation's founding. But it is only in recent decades that links have been drawn between the study of American political development and international relations; even now, emphasis falls primarily on how domestic politics affects the world arena. This book redresses the imbalance. Ten leading scholars explore how, over the past two centuries, the changing positions of the United States in the world economy and in the international political order have shaped U.S. political institutions and domestic politics. Ira Katznelson, Aristide R. Zolberg, and Robert O. Keohane demonstrate the central role that efforts to contend with foreign military and economic competition played in forming the major institutions of U.S. government from the framing of the Constitution through the Civil War. Martin Shefter, Theda Skocpol (writing with Ziad Munson, Andrew Karch, and Bayliss Camp), Ronald Rogowski, and Judith Goldstein show how the nation's political institutions were transformed by problems of war and trade the U.S. subsequently faced. Aaron L. Friedberg, Bartholomew H. Sparrow, and Peter A. Gourevitch conclude the volume by analyzing how international conflicts during and after the Cold War influenced governmental institutions and domestic politics in the United States over the past fifty years. Shaped by War and Trade sets the agenda for further exploration of a topic whose discussion is long overdue.
Author: Aaron L. Friedberg
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2012-01-06
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1400842913
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWar--or the threat of war--usually strengthens states as governments tax, draft soldiers, exert control over industrial production, and dampen internal dissent in order to build military might. The United States, however, was founded on the suspicion of state power, a suspicion that continued to gird its institutional architecture and inform the sentiments of many of its politicians and citizens through the twentieth century. In this comprehensive rethinking of postwar political history, Aaron Friedberg convincingly argues that such anti-statist inclinations prevented Cold War anxieties from transforming the United States into the garrison state it might have become in their absence. Drawing on an array of primary and secondary sources, including newly available archival materials, Friedberg concludes that the "weakness" of the American state served as a profound source of national strength that allowed the United States to outperform and outlast its supremely centralized and statist rival: the Soviet Union. Friedberg's analysis of the U. S. government's approach to taxation, conscription, industrial planning, scientific research and development, and armaments manufacturing reveals that the American state did expand during the early Cold War period. But domestic constraints on its expansion--including those stemming from mean self-interest as well as those guided by a principled belief in the virtues of limiting federal power--protected economic vitality, technological superiority, and public support for Cold War activities. The strategic synthesis that emerged by the early 1960s was functional as well as stable, enabling the United States to deter, contain, and ultimately outlive the Soviet Union precisely because the American state did not limit unduly the political, personal, and economic freedom of its citizens. Political scientists, historians, and general readers interested in Cold War history will value this thoroughly researched volume. Friedberg's insightful scholarship will also inspire future policy by contributing to our understanding of how liberal democracy's inherent qualities nurture its survival and spread.
Author: Harry Beller Yoshpe
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Published: 1963
Total Pages: 210
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David E. Wilson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-03-13
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 0429727976
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis annotated bibliography of more than 2,000 entries, current through 1977, sheds light on the national planning idea as a substantive issue in past, present, and future U.S. public policy; presents a bibliographic structure that suggests new emphases, relationships, and interdisciplinary approaches; and makes more easily accessible to students a
Author: Terrence J. Gough
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 140
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 140
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Harry Beller Yoshpe
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 244
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