Open Secrets Of American Foreign Policy
Published on 29. June 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
156 pages
978-981-270-562-4 (ISBN)
Description
American foreign policy is a dynamic and often controversial field, and is currently a topic of deep interest given recent developments in the Middle East, North Korea and China. In order to understand where US foreign policy is headed, it is important to first examine where it came from. This book provides an analysis of the political, economic and military history of American foreign policy, with the aim of divulging important details that most people have either never learned or forgotten - hence the phrase "open secrets". Covering events such as the attack on Pearl Harbor and the American Revolution, as well as American involvement in the Korean War and the collapse of Nationalist China, this fascinating book debunks a number of myths held by most people regarding US foreign policy, revealing some surprising conclusions.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Singapore
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 217 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
295 gr
ISBN-13
978-981-270-562-4 (9789812705624)
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Person
Gordon Tullock is currently University Professor of Law and Economics and Distinguished Research Fellow in the James M Buchanan Center for Political Economy at George Mason University. He has taught at the University of South Carolina, University of Virginia, Rice University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and University of Arizona. His book, The Calculus of Consent (1962), co-written with Nobel Laureate James M Buchanan, is a founding text of the public choice movement.
Content
Introduction; Pearl Harbor; The Collapse of Nationalist China; The Korean War and the Army of the Republic of Korea; The War of the American Revolution; The Japanese Move South; The Pinochet Effect; The First War the United States Lost?; Did Kennedy Have More Popular Votes in 1960?; Drugs and Some Remarks on the Constitution; He that Takes the Sword; Further Thoughts on the Korean War; Submarines; Aggression; The Democratic Peace; City Bombing; People who Committed Atrocities; Elementary Theory; Puzzles in History: Perhaps the Reader Can Solve Them.