NSC 68 and the Political Economy of the Early Cold War
Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science
| Author: | Curt Cardwell | ISBN: | 9781139088688 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | Publication: | June 13, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Curt Cardwell |
| ISBN: | 9781139088688 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publication: | June 13, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Language: | English |
NSC 68 and the Political Economy of the Early Cold War re-examines the origins and implementation of NSC 68, the massive rearmament program that the United States embarked upon beginning in the summer of 1950. Curt Cardwell reinterprets the origins of NSC 68 to demonstrate that the aim of the program was less about containing communism than ensuring the survival of the nascent postwar global economy, upon which rested postwar US prosperity. The book challenges most studies on NSC 68 as a document of geostrategy and argues instead that it is more correctly understood as a document rooted in concerns for the US domestic political economy.
NSC 68 and the Political Economy of the Early Cold War re-examines the origins and implementation of NSC 68, the massive rearmament program that the United States embarked upon beginning in the summer of 1950. Curt Cardwell reinterprets the origins of NSC 68 to demonstrate that the aim of the program was less about containing communism than ensuring the survival of the nascent postwar global economy, upon which rested postwar US prosperity. The book challenges most studies on NSC 68 as a document of geostrategy and argues instead that it is more correctly understood as a document rooted in concerns for the US domestic political economy.
