The USA and the world 2022-2023. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: David M. Keithly.
• Authors: Keithly, David M
• Contents: Introduction 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 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 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 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 Transnational Turbulence A Nation Apart? Cold Dawn Glossary of International Terms 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 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 Chapter Seven: A Nation of Nations Immigration Freedom and Civil Liberties The “Melting Pot” Demography as Destiny The Future Web Sites and Bibliography
• Edition: Seventeenth edition
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 973; Education: History; Education: Reference; Political Science: American Government / General; Reference: Yearbooks & Annuals; United States -- Civilization; United States -- Politics and government; United States -- Foreign relations
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781538165799
• Related ISBNs: 9781538165782
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