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America's Global Role - Essays and Reviews on National Security, Geopolitics, and War (Paperback)
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America's Global Role - Essays and Reviews on National Security, Geopolitics, and War (Paperback)
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America's Global Role, a collection of essays and reviews on
national security, geopolitics and war, combines a broad historical
and geopolitical overview of U.S. national security policy with
commentary on historical events and biographical sketches of
historical figures. This book offers insights into the evolution of
U.S. national security policy from the founding to the present.
Sempa shows how the United States began as a sliver of territory on
the eastern seaboard of central North America; pursued a policy of
westward expansion by diplomacy, war, and conquest, exploiting the
European balance of power; formulated and implemented national
security doctrines designed to protect its security and promote
further expansion; and survived a terrible Civil War that
threatened to halt that expansion. Afterwards, America began to
play a larger role on the global stage. During the first half of
the twentieth century, the U.S. acted as an 'offshore balancer' to
restore the balance of power on the Eurasian landmass. Later, the
U.S. became the geopolitical successor to the British Empire. The
end of the Cold War produced an initial period of uncertainty in
U.S. national security policy that ended with the events of
September 11, 2001, as U.S. national security policy focused on
efforts to defeat global Islamic terrorists and rogue states
seeking to acquire weapons of mass destruction. Sempa points out
the political, demographic, and geopolitical developments of the
early twenty-first century that have shifted the focus of U.S.
national security policy from Europe to Asia.
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