262 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume explores the preventive war option in American foreign policy, from the early Cold War strategic problems created by the growth of Soviet and Chinese power, to the post-Cold War fears of a nuclear-armed North Korea, Iraq and Iran.
For several decades after the Second World War, American politicians and citizens shared the belief that a war launched in the absence of a truly... Read more
1. The Preventive War Temptation versus the Anti-Preventive War Norm 2. Preventing a Soviet Atomic Power Shift 3. Truman Rejects Preventive War 4. Eisenhower and the Growth of Soviet and Chinese Power, 1953-1955 5. The Cuba Crisis of 1962 6. Coercive Anti-Proliferation: From China 1964 to North Korea 1994 7. Conclusion: The Iraq War of 2003
Biography
Scott Silverstone is Associate Professor of International Relations at the United States Military Academy, West Point. He is also the author of Divided Union: The Politics of War in the Early American Republic (Cornell, 2004). A former naval officer, he received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999.
