Open secrets of American foreign policy / Gordon Tullock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tullock, Gordon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Foreign relations.

United States.

United States--Politics and government.

United States--Economic policy.

United States--History, Military.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (155 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

American foreign policy is a dynamic and often controversial field, and is currently a topic of deep interest given recent developments in the Middle East, North Korea and China. In order to understand where US foreign policy is headed, it is important to first examine where it came from. This book provides an analysis of the political, economic and military history of American foreign policy, with the aim of divulging important details that most people have either never learned or forgotten - hence the phrase "open secrets". Covering events such as the attack on Pearl Harbor and the American

Contents:

Introduction

Pearl Harbor

The collapse of Nationalist China

The Korean War and the army of the Republic of Korea

The War of the American Revolution

The Japanese move south

The Pinochet effect

The first war the United States lost?

Did Kennedy have more popular votes in 1960?

Drugs and some remarks on the Constitution

He who takes the sword

Further thoughts on the Korean War

Submarines

Aggression

The democratic peace

City bombing

People who committed atrocities

Elementary theory

Puzzles in history : perhaps the reader can solve them.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 143) and index.

ISBN:

9786611121556

9781281121554

128112155X

9789812771698

9812771697

OCLC:

476100182