America's Search for Security: The Triumph of Idealism and the Return of Realism

by Sean Kay

This book details the ways in which America's ascendancy to global superpower status was the result of its dueling foreign policy philosophies and forces: an historically expansive idealism balanced with an equally constant realist restraint. In America's Search for Security, Sean Kay surveys major historical trends in American foreign policy and provides a new context for thinking about America's rise to power from the founding period through the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442225629
• ISBN13: 9781442225626
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 to 22 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary