Screen LibraryThe Cold War at home and abroad : domestic politics and US foreign policy since 1945 /
"In The Cold War at Home and Abroad, editors Andrew L. Johns and Mitchell B. Lerner bring together eleven essays that reflect the growing methodological diversity that has transformed the field over the past twenty years. The contributors examine a spectrum of diverse domestic factors and their...
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The University Press of Kentucky,
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| Publisher Address: | Lexington, Kentucky : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Studies in conflict, diplomacy, and peace
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"In The Cold War at Home and Abroad, editors Andrew L. Johns and Mitchell B. Lerner bring together eleven essays that reflect the growing methodological diversity that has transformed the field over the past twenty years. The contributors examine a spectrum of diverse domestic factors and their influence on the history of US foreign relations since 1945, ranging from elections and Congress's influence on policy to the role of religion and regionalism"-- |
| Carrier Form: | 322 pages : illustration ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780813175737 0813175739 |
| Index Number: | E743 |
| CLC: | D871.29 |
| Call Number: | D871.29/C688 |
| Contents: | Introduction. Janus, Tocqueville, and the world : the nexus of domestic politics and US foreign policy / Andrew L. Johns -- Fact givers or fact makers? : the dilemma of information-making in the State Department's Office of Public Affairs during the Truman administration / Autumn Lass -- From hawk to dawk : Congressman Melvin Laird and the Vietnam War, 1952-1968 / David L. Prentice -- Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson and the intersection between domestic politics and foreign relations in the postwar era / Christopher Foss -- Religious pluralism, domestic politics, and the emerging Jewish-evangelical coalition on Israel, 1960-1980 / Daniel G. Hummel -- Subtraction by addition : the Nixon administration and the domestic politics of arms control / Henry R. Maar III -- "One picture may not be worth ten thousand words, but the White House is betting it's worth ten thousand votes" : Richard Nixon and diplomacy as spectacle / Tizoc Chavez -- Creating an ethnic lobby : Ronald Reagan, Jorge Mas Canosa, and the birth of the Cuban American National Foundation / Hideaki Kami -- Forging consensus on Vietnamese reeducation camp detainees : the families of Vietnamese Political Prisoners Association and US-Vietnam normalization / Amanda C. Demmer -- The Congressional Human Rights Caucus and the plight of the Refuseniks / Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard -- Peace through austerity : the Reagan defense buildup in the "age of inequality" / Michael Brenes -- The domestic politics of superpower rapprochement : foreign policy and the 1984 presidential election / Simon Miles -- Conclusion. Politics, diplomacy, and the state of the field / Mitchell B. Lerner. |