Author: Benjamin Frankel
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780819175823
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
This reader contains a sample of the best essays published in the foreign policy quarterly. The National Interest during its first four years. The period covered by this volume was a critical one for American foreign policy. It represented a recovery of confidence after the uncertainty and self-laceration of the 1960s and 1970s. But it was also a period when dramatic events in the communist world raised fundamental questions about the ending of the Cold War and about prevailing American foreign policy. The essays in this volume examine the basic and enduring questions of international politics and the national security of the United States. These and related issues are discussed in the reader by leading American policymakers, academics, and commentators. Co-published with The National Interest.
Fortress America
Author: Elaine Tyler May
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465093000
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
An award-winning historian argues that America's obsession with security imperils our democracy in this "compelling" portrait of cultural anxiety (Mary L. Dudziak, author of War Time). For the last sixty years, fear has seeped into every area of American life: Americans own more guns than citizens of any other country, sequester themselves in gated communities, and retreat from public spaces. And yet, crime rates have plummeted, making life in America safer than ever. Why, then, are Americans so afraid-and where does this fear lead to? In this remarkable work of social history, Elaine Tyler May demonstrates how our obsession with security has made citizens fear each other and distrust the government, making America less safe and less democratic. Fortress America charts the rise of a muscular national culture, undercutting the common good. Instead of a thriving democracy of engaged citizens, we have become a paranoid, bunkered, militarized, and divided vigilante nation.
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465093000
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
An award-winning historian argues that America's obsession with security imperils our democracy in this "compelling" portrait of cultural anxiety (Mary L. Dudziak, author of War Time). For the last sixty years, fear has seeped into every area of American life: Americans own more guns than citizens of any other country, sequester themselves in gated communities, and retreat from public spaces. And yet, crime rates have plummeted, making life in America safer than ever. Why, then, are Americans so afraid-and where does this fear lead to? In this remarkable work of social history, Elaine Tyler May demonstrates how our obsession with security has made citizens fear each other and distrust the government, making America less safe and less democratic. Fortress America charts the rise of a muscular national culture, undercutting the common good. Instead of a thriving democracy of engaged citizens, we have become a paranoid, bunkered, militarized, and divided vigilante nation.
Fortress America
Author: Edward J. Blakely
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 9780815791072
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Gated communities are a new "hot button" in many North American cities. From Boston to Los Angeles and from Miami to Toronto citizens are taking sides in the debate over whether any neighborhood should be walled and gated, preventing intrusion or inspection by outsiders. This debate has intensified since the hard cover edition of this book was published in 1997. Since then the number of gated communities has risen dramatically. In fact, new homes in over 40 percent of planned developments are gated n the West, the South, and southeastern parts of the United States. Opposition to this phenomenon is growing too. In the small and relatively homogenous town of Worcester, Massachusetts, a band of college students from Brown University and the University of Chicago picketed the Wexford Village in November of 1998 waving placards that read "Gates Divide." These students are symbolic of a much larger wave of citizens asking questions about the need for and the social values of gates that divide one portion of a community from another.
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 9780815791072
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Gated communities are a new "hot button" in many North American cities. From Boston to Los Angeles and from Miami to Toronto citizens are taking sides in the debate over whether any neighborhood should be walled and gated, preventing intrusion or inspection by outsiders. This debate has intensified since the hard cover edition of this book was published in 1997. Since then the number of gated communities has risen dramatically. In fact, new homes in over 40 percent of planned developments are gated n the West, the South, and southeastern parts of the United States. Opposition to this phenomenon is growing too. In the small and relatively homogenous town of Worcester, Massachusetts, a band of college students from Brown University and the University of Chicago picketed the Wexford Village in November of 1998 waving placards that read "Gates Divide." These students are symbolic of a much larger wave of citizens asking questions about the need for and the social values of gates that divide one portion of a community from another.
Fortress America
Author: J.E. Kaufmann
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780306812941
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
"A comprehensive account of North American fortifications and defense structures from colonial times to the twentieth century, supplemented by scores of remarkable photographs, technical drawings, maps, and diagrams." -- book jacket.
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780306812941
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
"A comprehensive account of North American fortifications and defense structures from colonial times to the twentieth century, supplemented by scores of remarkable photographs, technical drawings, maps, and diagrams." -- book jacket.
Behind the Gates
Author: Setha Low
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135945306
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135945306
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Fortress America The American Military And The Consequences Of Peace
Author: William Greider
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 9781891620454
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"William Greider, one of America's most respected political and economic journalists, explores how and why America has avoided coming to terms with the end of the Cold War era—and the troubling consequ"
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 9781891620454
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"William Greider, one of America's most respected political and economic journalists, explores how and why America has avoided coming to terms with the end of the Cold War era—and the troubling consequ"
In the National Interest
Author: Benjamin Frankel
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780819175823
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
This reader contains a sample of the best essays published in the foreign policy quarterly. The National Interest during its first four years. The period covered by this volume was a critical one for American foreign policy. It represented a recovery of confidence after the uncertainty and self-laceration of the 1960s and 1970s. But it was also a period when dramatic events in the communist world raised fundamental questions about the ending of the Cold War and about prevailing American foreign policy. The essays in this volume examine the basic and enduring questions of international politics and the national security of the United States. These and related issues are discussed in the reader by leading American policymakers, academics, and commentators. Co-published with The National Interest.
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780819175823
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
This reader contains a sample of the best essays published in the foreign policy quarterly. The National Interest during its first four years. The period covered by this volume was a critical one for American foreign policy. It represented a recovery of confidence after the uncertainty and self-laceration of the 1960s and 1970s. But it was also a period when dramatic events in the communist world raised fundamental questions about the ending of the Cold War and about prevailing American foreign policy. The essays in this volume examine the basic and enduring questions of international politics and the national security of the United States. These and related issues are discussed in the reader by leading American policymakers, academics, and commentators. Co-published with The National Interest.
New Class Society
Author: Robert Perrucci
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742545540
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
This book explores how class-based resources and interests embedded in large organizations are linked to powerful structures and processes which in turn are rapidly polarizing the U.S. into a highly unequal, 'double diamond' class structure. The authors show how and why American class membership in the 21st century is based on an organizationally-based distribution of critical resources including income, investment capital, credentialed skills verified by elite schools, and social connections to organizational leaders.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742545540
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
This book explores how class-based resources and interests embedded in large organizations are linked to powerful structures and processes which in turn are rapidly polarizing the U.S. into a highly unequal, 'double diamond' class structure. The authors show how and why American class membership in the 21st century is based on an organizationally-based distribution of critical resources including income, investment capital, credentialed skills verified by elite schools, and social connections to organizational leaders.
Assignment of Ground Forces of the United States to Duty in the European Area
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
Considers sense of Senate resolution against stationing of U.S. ground forces in Europe without a congressionally authorized policy. Focuses on U.S. role in NATO.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
Considers sense of Senate resolution against stationing of U.S. ground forces in Europe without a congressionally authorized policy. Focuses on U.S. role in NATO.
Conventions with South Africa, New Zealand, Norway, Ireland, Greece and Canada on Double Taxation
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commercial policy
Languages : en
Pages : 1242
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commercial policy
Languages : en
Pages : 1242
Book Description
Military Law Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Languages : en
Pages : 1334
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Languages : en
Pages : 1334
Book Description