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Isolationism reconfigured : American foreign policy for a new century

This work advocates a new variant of isolationism, a "national strategy" confining US military actions largely to North America and to neighbouring sea and air-lanes but encouraging international activism and engagement in nonsecurity realms
Print Book, English, ©1995
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., ©1995
x, 335 pages ; 25 cm
9780691043272, 9780691029214, 0691043272, 0691029210
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Part I, America's security: A national strategy: contemporary contours and the historical record
America's strategic immunity
Tailoring policies to intentions: problematics and hazards
Maximizing strategic mismanagement: avoiding inadvertent security deflations
Part II, Beyond the security realm: America's international ideals
The national welfare
Liberal, constitutional, and legal ideals
An American foreign policy