Curt Cardwell,
Curt (Drake University, Iowa) Cardwell
Cambridge University Press
e druk, 2015
9781107480957
NSC 68 and the Political Economy of the Early Cold War
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Paperback, 312 blz.
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Engels
Cambridge University Press |
e druk, 2015
ISBN13: 9781107480957
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Samenvatting
NSC 68 and the Political Economy of the Early Cold War re-examines the origins and implementation of NSC 68, the massive rearmament program that the United States embarked upon beginning in the summer of 1950. Curt Cardwell reinterprets the origins of NSC 68 to demonstrate that the aim of the program was less about containing communism than ensuring the survival of the nascent postwar global economy, upon which rested postwar US prosperity. The book challenges most studies on NSC 68 as a document of geostrategy and argues instead that it is more correctly understood as a document rooted in concerns for the US domestic political economy.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9781107480957
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:312
Uitgever:Cambridge University Press
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction; 1. NSC 68 and the problem of origins; 2. Multilateralism, the Soviet threat, and the origins of the Cold War; 3. Multilateralism, the dollar gap, and the origins of the Cold War; 4. The dollar gap and its discontents; 5. The British sterling-dollar crisis of 1949–50; 6. The origins and development of NSC 68; 7. The political economy of rearmament; Conclusion.