America Alone

America Alone

Einband:
Kartonierter Einband
EAN:
9780521674607
Untertitel:
The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order
Genre:
Politikwissenschaft
Autor:
Stefan Halper, Jonathan Clarke
Herausgeber:
Cambridge University Press
Anzahl Seiten:
384
Erscheinungsdatum:
27.02.2009
ISBN:
0521674603

Examines the neo-conservative movement in the U.S. and discovers cautions against it.

Autorentext
Stefan Halper is a Fellow of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, and a Senior Fellow of the Centre of International Studies, where he directs the Donner Atlantic Studies Programme. He holds a B.A. from Stanford and doctorates from Oxford and Cambridge Universities. He was a White House and State Department official during the Nixon, Ford, and Reagan administrations. For twelve years he was executive editor and host of the weekly radio program This Week from Washington and then was executive editor and host of WorldWise, a weekly television program on foreign affairs. He has made contributions to numerous print media including the American Spectator, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Dallas Morning News, The International Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, National Interest, National Review, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Washington Times, and Weekly Standard. Dr Halper is senior editor at the Cambridge Review of International Affairs and a Contributing Editor at the American Spectator. He is the co-editor of Latin America: The Dynamics of Social Change.

Zusammenfassung
America Alone looks at the neo-conservative rise in US influence and how this in conservative policy has been detrimental to the safety and stability of the United States. It then sets out an alternative approach emphasizing the traditional conservative principles of containing risk, consensus diplomacy and balance of power.

Inhalt
1. The neo-conservatives: a new political interest group; 2. Origins and early development; 3. The nineties: from near-death to resurrection; 4. The neo-conservative association; 5. The false history; 6. Outreach to the media and evangelicals; 7. Iraq: the false pretenses; 8. America: perception and counter perception; 9. The neo-conservative 'World War IV' and its impact on American society; 10. The balance sheet and looking ahead; Appendix.


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