National Security and Core Values in American History (Paperback)

Part I. The Origins of the Security Ethos, 1688?1919: 1. Commerce, expansion, and republican virtue; 2. The first national security state; Part II. Internationalism and Containment, 1919?1973: 3. The postwar era and American values; 4. The construction of global containment; 5. Civic virtue in Richard Nixon's America; Part III. The Age of Strategic Globalism, 1973?2001: 6. Core values and strategic globalism through 1988; 7. The false promise of a new world order; 8. Globalization and militarism; Part IV. The Bush Doctrine: 9. The war on terror and core values; Conclusion: The security ethos and civic virtue.