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

by Sean Kay

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 end of the Cold War. It details the post-Cold War rise of idealist foreign policy goals and the costs of abandoning realist roots, analyzing in-depth the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as examples of what disappointing, if not disastrous, outcomes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442225637
• ISBN13: 9781442225633
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 to 22 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary