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Book SynopsisAdvocates a fresh variant of isolationism, a 'national strategy' confining US military actions largely to North America and to neighboring sea-and air-lanes but encouraging international activism and engagement in nonsecurity realms. This book shows that a national strategy would have lessened the perils, including those of the Cold War.
Trade Review"Nordlinger ... is an isolationist with a difference... He departs from the isolationist tradition ... in wanting to promote human rights and democracy through economic sanctions... [Nordlinger's] fearless iconoclasm and dogged analytical rigor command admiration."--Foreign Affairs
Table of ContentsForeword and AcknowledgmentsCh. IIntroduction3Ch. IIA National Strategy: Contemporary Contours and the Historical Record31Ch. IIIAmerica's Strategic Immunity63Ch. IVTailoring Policies to Intentions: Problematics and Hazards92Ch. VMaximizing Deterrence, Defense, and Economic Security112Ch. VIMaximizing Conciliation: Reassuring the Challenger142Ch. VIIMinimizing Strategic Mismanagement: Avoiding Inadvertent Security Deflations160Ch. VIIIAmerica's International Ideals183Ch. IXThe National Welfare214Ch. XLiberal, Constitutional, and Legal Ideals240Ch. XIAn American Foreign Policy263Notes279Index319
