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Building the Cold War consensus : the political economy of U.S. national security policy, 1949-51 / Benjamin O. Fordham.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fordham, Benjamin O.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National security--United States--History--20th century.
- National security.
- United States.
- History.
- Internal security--United States--History--20th century.
- Internal security.
- Cold War.
- United States--Foreign relations--1945-1953.
- International relations.
- United States--Politics and government--1945-1953.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 265 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2001, c1998.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Why was there a political consensus in support of large defense spending in the early stages of the Cold War? Political scientist Benjamin Forham draws a correlation between a 1950 increased military budget--at the expense of national health care and other social reforms--and a campaign against the influence of radicals in American life. Forham's interpretation will interest political scientists, historians, and anyone interested in Cold War politics.
- Contents:
- The domestic political economy and U.S. national security policy
- The politics of rearmament in the executive branch I : the fiscal 1951 budget
- The politics of rearmament in the executive branch II : NSC 68 and rearmament
- The political and economic sources of divergent foreign policy preferences in the Senate, 1949-51
- The conflictual politics of consensus building I : Korea, rearmament, and the end of the Fair Deal
- The conflictual politics of consensus building II : the development of the internal security program
- The conflictual politics of consensus building III : rearmament and the red scare
- Conclusion : domestic politics and theories of national security policy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-251) and indexes.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 0472108875
- 9780472108879
- 9780472023370
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.15697
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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