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Building the Cold War Consensus
Benjamin Fordham
其他書名
The Political Economy of U.S. National Security Policy, 1949-51
出版
University of Michigan Press
, 1998-07-06
主題
Business & Economics / Economic History
History / General
History / United States / General
History / United States / 20th Century
History / World
History / Modern / 20th Century / General
History / Modern / 20th Century / Cold War
Political Science / General
Political Science / History & Theory
Political Science / International Relations / General
Political Science / Security (National & International)
ISBN
9780472108879
0472108875
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=4F9TtM1Vo4cC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
In 1950, the U.S. military budget more than tripled while plans for a national health care system and other new social welfare programs disappeared from the agenda. At the same time, the official campaign against the influence of radicals in American life reached new heights. Benjamin Fordham suggests that these domestic and foreign policy outcomes are closely related. The Truman administration's efforts to fund its ambitious and expensive foreign policy required it to sacrifice much of its domestic agenda and acquiesce to conservative demands for a campaign against radicals in the labor movement and elsewhere.
Using a statistical analysis of the economic sources of support and opposition to the Truman Administration's foreign policy, and a historical account of the crucial period between the summer of 1949 and the winter of 1951, Fordham integrates the political struggle over NSC 68, the decision to intervene in the Korean War, and congressional debates over the Fair Deal, McCarthyism and military spending. The Truman Administration's policy was politically successful not only because it appealed to internationally oriented sectors of the U.S. economy, but also because it was linked to domestic policies favored by domestically oriented, labor-sensitive sectors that would otherwise have opposed it.
This interpretation of Cold War foreign policy will interest political scientists and historians concerned with the origins of the Cold War, American social welfare policy, McCarthyism, and the Korean War, and the theoretical argument it advances will be of interest broadly to scholars of U.S. foreign policy, American politics, and international relations theory.
Benjamin O. Fordham is Assistant Professor of Political Science, State University of New York at Albany.