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America insecure : arms transfers, global interventionism, and the erosion of national security
- Title
- America insecure : arms transfers, global interventionism, and the erosion of national security / by Miles D. Wolpin.
- Author
- Wolpin, Miles D.
- Publication
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., ©1991.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | UA23 .W63 1991 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xii, 385 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- National security > United States
- Military assistance, American
- Arms transfers > United States
- National security > Developing countries
- Arms transfers > Developing countries
- Arms transfers
- Military relations
- National security
- Sicherheitspolitik
- Militärpolitik
- United States > Military relations
- Developing countries
- United States
- USA
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-375) and index.
- Contents
- "National security": symbolism and preversion -- Weapons exports and third world militarization -- American arms exports in historical perspective -- Carter's Interregnum: the eclipse of liberal human rights and arms restraint policies -- The Salience of arms transfers and threat inflation in Reagan's "containment" policy -- Military-industrial and transnational corporate interests -- Official "security" rationales and liberal critiques: the underlying imperial dimension -- The domestic costs of Pentagonism: whither the American dream? -- Constraining third world socio-economic development prospects -- Fomenting arms races and warfare in the underdeveloped areas -- The Nascent American garrison state -- Toward an alternative national security approach.
- ISBN
- 0899505295
- 9780899505299
- LCCN
- 90052570
- OCLC
- ocm22006581
- 22006581
- SCSB-1907766
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library