| Description |
1 online resource (x, 252 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Eric Voegelin Institute series in political philosophy
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Eric Voegelin Institute series in political philosophy.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-236) and index. |
| Contents |
Then (1945-1991) -- Pax Americana -- The Postwar Task -- Bretton Woods -- The Marshall Plan and Containment -- German Wirtschaftswunder -- The Berlin Blockade -- The Truman Doctrine -- NATO and Its Cross of Lorraine -- The Korean War -- The Hungarian Revolution and the Berlin Wall -- The Cuban Missile Crisis and Nikita Khrushchev -- The Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia and the Brezhnev Doctrine -- Cultural Shift -- D'tente -- Eurocommunism -- Negotiated Cold War -- The Errors of Socialism -- Ronald Reagan and His Critics -- Solidarity -- Gorbachev and His Nemesis -- The Fall of the Berlin Wall and Reunification of Germany -- The End of an Era -- And Now (1991-2004) -- After the Fall: Celebratory Foresight and Ominous Speculations -- After the Wall: What Happened on the Ground -- Drifting Apart: Multipolarity and Hegemony -- Aggregation: The European Union -- Disaggregation: Civil War in Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Chinese Shadows -- 9/11 and the War on Terrorism -- Lessons. |
| Summary |
"Traces the development and implementation of Pax Americana, the American way of peace, from World War II to the war on terrorism and the Iraqi conflict. Examines the extent to which modernization must incorporate values of democracy and rule of law"--Provided by publisher. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989.
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United States. |
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International relations. |
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1945-1989 |
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-
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1989- |
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Peace-building -- United States.
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Peace-building. |
| Chronological Term |
Since 1945 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Prybyla, Jan S. American way of peace. Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2005 0826215955 (DLC) 2005003463 (OCoLC)57670293 |
| ISBN |
0826264808 (electronic book) |
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9780826264800 (electronic book) |
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0826215955 (alkaline paper) |
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9780826215956 (alkaline paper) |
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