The USA and The World 2019-2020. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: David M. Keithly.
• Editors: Keithly, David M
• Contents: <span style="font-weight:bold;">Introduction ; ; <span style="font-weight:bold;">Chapter One: National Interest Priorities ; ; National Security ; ; The Northern Neighbor: Canada ; ; Regional Cooperation in the Western Hemisphere ; ; Europe’s Political and Economic Stability ; ; Russian Stability and Economic Development ; ; The Greater Middle East ; ; Stable Transitions in Africa ; ; Development in South Asia: India and Pakistan ; ; Asia Pacific Peace and Stability ; ; Promoting Democracy ; ; Transnational Threats ; ; The Environmental Dimension ; ; Realism and Democracy ; ; The American World Image ; ; <span style="font-weight:bold;">Chapter Two: National Expansion ; ; Enduring Interests ; ; International Commerce ; ; In the Beginning ; ; The New Nation and Its Constitution ; ; First Diplomatic Steps ; ; Restructuring Strict Constructionism ; ; Unleashing the Dogs of War ; ; A Cautionary Tale ; ; Manifest Destiny ; ; Advances in Democracy ; ; America Becomes a Great Power ; ; The Path of Empire ; ; <span style="font-weight:bold;">Chapter Three: Ascent to Globalism ; ; Europe’s Lights Go Out ; ; World War I ; ; The Paris Peace Conference, 1919–1920 ; ; Isolation and Normalcy: the 1920s ; ; Economic Problems of the Peace 1919–1939 ; ; The Dictators Take Over ; ; Neutrality and Appeasement ; ; Into the Abyss ; ; The Arsenal of Democracy ; ; America’s Entry ; ; War in the Pacific ; ; Pandora’s Box of Atomic Weaponry ; ; Wartime Planning for Peace ; ; Uniting for Peace ; ; Old Game, New Rules ; ; The East-West Conflict ; ; Cold War and Iron Curtain ; ; Power and Purpose ; ; Cracks in the Bloc ; ; Nationalism Triumphs ; ; <span style="font-weight:bold;">Chapter Four: The Anguish of Power ; ; World Tensions ; ; On the Brink ; ; The Ordeal of Vietnam ; ; The Middle East Conflict ; ; Security in the Nuclear Age ; ; The Second Cold War ; ; Strategic Defense ; ; South of the Border ; ; The Arc of Crisis ; ; Looking East ; ; The World Turned Rightside Up ; ; The Middle East in Peace and War ; ; The Western Hemisphere ; ; Heirs of Pericles: NATO and OSCE ; <br />Transnational Turbulence ; ; A Nation Apart? ; ; Cold Dawn ; ; Glossary of International Terms ; ; <span style="font-weight:bold;">Chapter Five: Political Ideas and Political System ; ; Deliberative Bodies ; ; Separation of Powers ; ; Checks and Balances ; ; The Changing Constitution ; ; The Federal System ; ; The Legislative Branch ; ; The Executive Branch ; ; The Judicial Branch ; ; The States ; ; Elections in the United States ; ; Revved Up with Somewhere to Go ; ; All Politics is Local ; ; Glossary of Political Terms ; ; <span style="font-weight:bold;">Chapter Six: The U.S. Economy ; ; Going Commercial ; ; Fluctuations Before 1860 ; ; Called to Account ; ; All the World’s An Exchange ; ; War and Peace, 1914–1919 ; ; The Crest of the Wave ; ; Exit Prosperity ; ; Comparative Disadvantage ; ; National Recovery 1934–1941 ; ; World War II ; ; The Bretton Woods System ; ; Patterns of International Economic Cooperation ; ; The Yellow Brick Road ; ; The “Soaring Sixties” ; ; Trade with the East Bloc ; ; Shocks to the System ; ; Meddling and Muddling ; ; The Navigator ; ; Go-Go Global ; ; Home to Roost ; ; What is Past is Prologue ; ; Cry Havoc ; ; Reindustrialization ; ; Glossary of Economic Terms ; ; <span style="font-weight:bold;">Chapter Seven: A Nation of Nations <br />; Immigration ; ; Freedom and Civil Liberties ; ; The “Melting Pot” ; ; Demography as Destiny ; ; The Future ; ; <span style="font-weight:bold;">Web Sites and Bibliography
• Edition: 15th
• Publisher Details: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (290 pages)
• Subjects: Education: History; Education: Reference; History: North America; History: Study & Teaching; Reference: Yearbooks & Annuals
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781475852448; 1475852444
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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