Waging Peace
How Eisenhower Shaped an Enduring Cold War Strategy
1st Edition
Published in December 1998
330 pages
978-0-19-536272-5 (ISBN)
Description
Waging Peace offers the first fully comprehensive study of Eisenhower's "New Look" program of national security, which provided the groundwork for the next three decades of America's Cold War strategy. Though the Cold War itself and the idea of containment originated under Truman, it was left to Eisenhower to develop the first coherent and sustainable strategy for addressing the issues unique to the nuclear age. To this end, he designated a decision-making system centered around the National Security Council to take full advantage of the expertise and data from various departments and agencies and of the judgment of his principal advisors. The result was the formation of a "long haul" strategy of preventing war and Soviet expansion and of mitigating Soviet hostility. Only now, in the aftermath of the Cold War, can Eisenhower's achievement be fully appreciated.
This book will be of much interest to scholars and students of the Eisenhower era, diplomatic history, the Cold War, and contemporary foreign policy.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
File size
19,62 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-19-536272-5 (9780195362725)
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Robert R. Bowie | Richard H. Immerman
Waging Peace
How Eisenhower Shaped an Enduring Cold War Strategy
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10/2000
Oxford University Press Inc
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Robert R. Bowie | Richard H. Immerman
Waging Peace
How Eisenhower Shaped an Enduring Cold War Strategy
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04/1998
Oxford University Press Inc
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Persons
Robert R. Bowie is Emeritus Director of the Center for International Studies at Harvard University. Richard H. Immerman is a Professor at the Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy at Temple University.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part I: Prologue
- 1 The Truman Legacy
- 2 The Prepresidential Eisenhower
- 3 The Presecretarial Dulles
- 4 Campaigning for Security with Solvency
- Part II: Processes and Inputs
- 5 Organizing for National Security
- 6 How Much Is Enough?
- 7 A Chance for Peace?
- 8 The Solarium Exercise
- 9 Preparing the Basic National Security Strategy
- Part III: The Strategy
- 10 The Sino-Soviet Threat
- 11 Strategic Objectives: Rollback?
- 12 Military Strategy
- 13 Strengthening the Noncommunist World
- 14 Reducing the Nuclear Danger: Arms Control
- Part IV: Epilogue
- 15 The Eisenhower Legacy
- Notes
- Index
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- C
- D
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