Hard Power: The New Politics of National SecurityBasic Books, 2007 M03 9 - 336 pages Our ideas about national security have changed radically over the last five years. It has become a political tool, a "wedge issue," a symbol of pride and fear. It is also the one issue above all others that can make or break an election. And this is why the Democratic Party has been steadily losing power since 2001. In Hard Power, Michael O'Hanlon, an expert on foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, and Kurt Campbell, an authority on international security at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, explain how the Democrats lost credibility on issues of security and foreign policy, how they can get it back -- and why they must. They recall the successful Democratic military legacy of past decades, as well as recent Democratic innovations -- like the Homeland Security Office and the idea of nation-building -- that have been successfully co-opted by the Republican administration. And, most importantly, they develop a broad national security vision for America, including specific defense policies and a strategy to win the war on terror. |
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... agenda goes well beyond the Democratic Party. Moderate and internationalist Republicans, too, find themselves out of favor and struggling to project a vision for how to handle hard foreign-policy matters that complements their well ...
... agenda goes well beyond the Democratic Party. Moderate and internationalist Republicans, too, find themselves out of favor and struggling to project a vision for how to handle hard foreign-policy matters that complements their well ...
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... agenda for the exercise of American power in the world. Former senator Arthur Vandenberg remarked in 1948, at the beginning of the Cold War, that “politics stops at the water's edge.” The same would prove true after the 9/11 terrorist ...
... agenda for the exercise of American power in the world. Former senator Arthur Vandenberg remarked in 1948, at the beginning of the Cold War, that “politics stops at the water's edge.” The same would prove true after the 9/11 terrorist ...
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... agenda.5 Meanwhile, many progressives who embraced the Clinton administra)cc tions humanitarian interventions” in Bosnia and Kosovo (and decried the non-intervention in Rwanda) are deeply skeptical of the actions taken in Iraq, even ...
... agenda.5 Meanwhile, many progressives who embraced the Clinton administra)cc tions humanitarian interventions” in Bosnia and Kosovo (and decried the non-intervention in Rwanda) are deeply skeptical of the actions taken in Iraq, even ...
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... agenda. Without answers of their own to the questions they pose to the Bush administration about how to keep the country safe and secure, Democrats are likely to find current gains in national polls to be fleeting or iIIusory. SimiIarIy ...
... agenda. Without answers of their own to the questions they pose to the Bush administration about how to keep the country safe and secure, Democrats are likely to find current gains in national polls to be fleeting or iIIusory. SimiIarIy ...
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... agendas—though without the unilateralist tendencies and the sloppiness in execution of policy that have often characterize the Bush administration. Unlike the case with many on the left, however, for Hard Power Democrats multilateralism ...
... agendas—though without the unilateralist tendencies and the sloppiness in execution of policy that have often characterize the Bush administration. Unlike the case with many on the left, however, for Hard Power Democrats multilateralism ...
Contents
H A P T E R T W 0 | 47 |
CHAPTER THREE | 75 |
H A P T E R F O U | 119 |
HA P T E R FIVE | 137 |
HA P T E R S IX | 159 |
CHAPTER SEVEN | 185 |
CHAPTER EIGHT | 211 |
CONCLUSION | 237 |
Notes | 253 |
Index | 291 |
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Hard Power: The New Politics of National Security Kurt M. Campbell,Michael E. O'Hanlon Limited preview - 2006 |
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