Dying by the Sword The Militarization of US Foreign Policy | 14.96 MB
Title: Dying by the Sword The Militarization of US Foreign Policy
Author: Monica Duffy Toft
Category: Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, International, Foreign Legal Systems
Language: English | 313 Pages | ISBN: 0197581439
Description:
Dying by the Sword explores the US’s evolving foreign policies from the Founding era to the present in order to ring the alarm on the US’s increasing reliance on "kinetic" global diplomacy. Monica Duffy Toft and Sidita Kushi find that since the end of the Cold War and especially after 9/11, the US has initiated higher rates of military interventions, drastically escalating its usage of force abroad. Lacking clear national strategic goals, the US now pursues a whack-a-mole security policy that is more reactionary than deliberate. The book explores every major era of US foreign policy, combining historical narrative with anecdotes from US foreign policy officials, case studies, and evidence drawn from the Military Intervention Project (MIP), which measures the extent of US reliance on force. Each chapter highlights the ways in which the US used and balanced primary tools of statecraftwar, trade, and diplomacyto achieve its objectives. It showcases, however, that in recent decades,…
Dying by the Sword explores the US’s evolving foreign policies from the Founding era to the present in order to ring the alarm on the US’s increasing reliance on "kinetic" global diplomacy. Monica Duffy Toft and Sidita Kushi find that since the end of the Cold War and especially after 9/11, the US has initiated higher rates of military interventions, drastically escalating its usage of force abroad. Lacking clear national strategic goals, the US now pursues a whack-a-mole security policy that is more reactionary than deliberate. The book explores every major era of US foreign policy, combining historical narrative with anecdotes from US foreign policy officials, case studies, and evidence drawn from the Military Intervention Project (MIP), which measures the extent of US reliance on force. Each chapter highlights the ways in which the US used and balanced primary tools of statecraftwar, trade, and diplomacyto achieve its objectives. It showcases, however, that in recent decades,…
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