Alliances and American Foreign Policy
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1968. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. x, [2], 171, [1] pages. Footnotes, Index. DJ is price clipped and has some wear and soiling. Includes chapters on: Alliances in the Cold War: Vision and Reality; The Nature of Alliances; The Beginnings of American Alliance Policy; Alliances in Europe; Alliances Outside of Europe; and The Future of Alliances. Robert Endicott Osgood (1921–1986) was an expert on foreign and military policy, and the author of several significant texts on international relations. He taught at Johns Hopkins University for twenty five years, and also served as an advisor to Ronald Reagan during the latter's 1980 presidential campaign. He attended Harvard University, where he attained his bachelor's degree as well as his doctorate. He also served in World War II. His teaching career began in 1956 when he became assistant professor of political science at the University of Chicago. In 1961 he became Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy in the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. In 1969, he took a leave to serve for a year as a staff aide on the U.S. National Security Council, headed by Henry A. Kissinger, in the Nixon Administration. Osgood directed the Washington Center of Foreign Policy Research at Johns Hopkins University from 1965 to 1973. From 1973 to 1979 he was dean of the School of Advanced International Studies. He served as an advisor during Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign, and in 1983, Secretary of State George P. Shultz named him to the Policy Planning Council. Concentrating on the function of alliances during the cold war, Professor Osgood examines American foreign policy by exploring two fundamental questions: What changes have occurred in alliances (including non-American alliances) since World War II? and. What effects will these changes have on U.S. policy in the future? To answer these questions the author analyzes the role alliances have played from the eighteenth century to the present. He relates the types and functions of alliances to other kinds of military commitments and examines the changing factors that determine the nature and role of alliances. In his analysis of the Cold War, he provides detailed discussions of the European alliances, regional alliances outside of Europe, American's disillusionment with regionalism, military assistance agreements and other commitments of the United States, indigenous alliances, nonalignment, and Soviet alliances. Professor Osgood speculates provocatively about the effects of new overseas transport capabilities, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and the deployment of antiballistic missile systems upon alliances in future U.S. policy. Condition: Good / Good.
Keywords: Alliance, Balance of Power, Collective Security, NATO, Deterrence, Nationalism, Military Assistance, Korean War, Nuclear Weapons, Regionalism, Vietnam War, Third World, Soviet Union, Warsaw Pact, Warsaw Treaty Organization
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