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Open secrets of American foreign policy / Gordon Tullock

Author
Tullock, Gordon
Published
New Jersey : World Scientific, [2007]
Copyright Date
©2007
Physical Description
1 online resource (vi, 148 pages)
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Contents
Introduction -- Pearl Harbor -- The collapse of Nationalist China -- The Korean War and the army of the Republic of Korea -- The War of the American Revolution -- The Japanese move south -- The Pinochet effect -- The first war the United States lost? -- Did Kennedy have more popular votes in 1960? -- Drugs and some remarks on the Constitution -- He who takes the sword -- Further thoughts on the Korean War -- Submarines -- Aggression -- The democratic peace -- City bombing -- People who committed atrocities -- Elementary theory -- Puzzles in history : perhaps the reader can solve them.
Summary
American foreign policy is a dynamic and often controversial field, and is currently a topic of deep interest given recent developments in the Middle East, North Korea and China. In order to understand where US foreign policy is headed, it is important to first examine where it came from. This book provides an analysis of the political, economic and military history of American foreign policy, with the aim of divulging important details that most people have either never learned or forgotten? hence the phrase?open secrets?. Covering events such as the attack on Pearl Harbor and the American.
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9789812771698 (electronic bk.)
9812771697 (electronic bk.)
9789812705624 (pbk.)
9812705627 (pbk.)
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (page 143) and index.
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