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The Fate of Nations: The Search for National Security in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

By Michael Mandelbaum

Book information

Year
1988
ISBN
0521355273, 9780521355278
LCC
D363 .M29 1988
Open Library ID
OL2403408M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (14286536 bytes)
Pages
427\428
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The Fate of Nations identifies and illustrates the basic varieties of security policy, as well as re-interpreting six well-documented historical episodes: Great Britain and the nineteenth century balance of power system; France between the two world wars; The United States during the Cold War; China from the Communist victory in 1949 to 1976; Israel from the founding of the state in 1948 to the peace treaty with Egypt in 1979; Japan and the international economic order after 1945. Professor Mandelbaum shows that, while no state is wholly restricted by its position in the international system, neither is any entirely free from external constraints. He concludes that in this century, national security policies have been more prudent, even when unsuccessful, than they often retrospectively have been judged.

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