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Compound Dilemmas: Democracy, Collective Action, and Superpower Rivalry
McGinnis, Michael Dean, Williams, John
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Description for Compound Dilemmas: Democracy, Collective Action, and Superpower Rivalry
Hardcover. An explanation of how domestic support for U.S. defense expenditures was generated during the Cold War Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 151 x 23. Weight in Grams: 465.
For most of the period after World War II until the fall of the Soviet empire, there was a remarkable consensus in the United States in support of our policies toward the Soviet Union. This consensus resulted in enormous defense expenditures and in the development of a system of alliances that spanned the globe and marked a vast expansion of America's overseas obligations.
Compound Dilemmas addresses the question of how such widespread domestic support for a very expensive and continual arms race developed. Current models of the arms race often fail to explain the persistence of American support or ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472112074
SKU
V9780472112074
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99-15
About McGinnis, Michael Dean, Williams, John
Michael D. McGinnis is Associate Professor of Political Science, Indiana University. John T. Williams is Professor of Political Science, Indiana University.
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