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In The Shadow Of The Garrison State

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-War--or the threat of war---usually strengthens states as governments tax,draft soldiers.exert control over industrial production, and dampen internal dissent in order to build military might.The United States,however, was founded on the suspicion of the state power,a suspicion that continued to gird its institutional architecture and inform the sentiments of many of its politicians and citizens through the twentieth century.In this comprehensive rethinking of postwar political history.Aaron Friedberg convincingly argues that such anti-statist inclinations prevented Cold War anxieties from transforming the United States into the garrison state it might have become in their absence .Drawing on an array of primary and secondary sources,including newly available archival materials.Friedberg concludes that the weakness of the American state served as a profound source of national strength that allowed the United States to outperform and outlast its supremely centralized and statist ....

Daftar isi:
-Statism, Anti-Statism, and American Political Development
-The Cold War Founding
-The American Strategic Synthesis
-Money
-Manpower
-Supporting Industries
-Arms
-Technology

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320.1'01-Aar-i

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PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY : Princeton University Press., 2000

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