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020 $a0674011740 (cloth : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aE183.7$b.G27 2004
082 00 $a355/.033073$222
100 1 $aGaddis, John Lewis.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81009630
245 10 $aSurprise, security, and the American experience /$cJohn Lewis Gaddis.
260 $aCambridge, MA :$bHarvard University Press,$c2004.
300 $aviii, 150 pages ;$c21 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aJoanna Jackson Goldman memorial lecture on American civilization and government
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 1 $a"September 11, 2001, the distinguished Cold War historian John Lewis argues, was not the first time a surprise attack shattered assumptions about national security and re-shaped American grand strategy. We've been there before, and have responded each time by dramatically expanding our security responsibilities." "The pattern began in 1814, when the British attacked Washington, burning the White House and the Capitol. This early violation of homeland security gave rise to a strategy of unilateralism and preemption, best articulated by John Quincy Adams, aimed at maintaining strength beyond challenge throughout the North American continent. It remained in place for over a century. Only when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941 did the inadequacies of this strategy become evident. As a consequence, Franklin D. Roosevelt devised a new grand strategy of cooperation with allies on an intercontinental scale to defeat authoritarianism. That strategy defined the American approach throughout World War II and the Cold War." "The terrorist attacks of 9/11, Gaddis writes, made it clear that this strategy is now insufficient to ensure American security. The Bush administration has therefore devised a new grand strategy whose foundations lie in the nineteenth-century tradition of unilateralism, preemption, and hegemony, projected this time on a global scale. How successful it will be in the face of twenty-first-century challenges is the question that confronts us. This book, informed by the experiences of the past but focused on the present and the future, is one of the first attempts by a major scholar of international relations to provide an answer."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140058
650 0 $aSurprise (Military science)$zUnited States$xHistory.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$xPhilosophy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88003959
650 0 $aNational security$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140387
650 0 $aStrategy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85128514
650 0 $aUnilateral acts (International law)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139698
650 0 $aPreemptive attack (Military science)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85106260
830 0 $aJoanna Jackson Goldman memorial lecture on American civilization and government.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94102155
852 00 $bleh$hE183.7$i.G27 2004
852 00 $bbar$hE183.7$i.G27 2004