Paterson, Thomas G., J. Garry Clifford, and Kenneth J. Hagan. American Foreign Relations. Vol. 2: A History Since 1895. 5th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. ISBN: 0395938872.
Gaddis, John Lewis. Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. ISBN: 0195030974.
Herring, George C. America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975. 3rd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996. ISBN: 0070283931.
Kennedy, Robert F. Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999/1971. ISBN: 0393318346.
A book that will improve your papers (also used for another course - 17.432):
Turabian, Kate L. A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. 6th ed. Rev. by John Grossman and Alice Bennett. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. ISBN: 00226816273.
Turabian is not required for 17.40 but you will want to own a copy. She has the basic rules for how to format footnotes, etc. Learn and obey them.
American Grand Strategy
Art, Robert J. "A Defensible Defense: America's Grand Strategy After the Cold War." International Security 15, no. 4 (Spring, 1991): 5-53.
A survey of American interests and strategic choices after the Cold War.
Gholz, Eugene, Daryl G. Press, and Harvey M. Sapolsky. "Come Home America: The Strategy of Restraint in the Face of Temptation." International Security 21, no. 4 (Spring 1997): pp. 5-48.
Walt, Stephen M. "The Case for Finite Containment: Analyzing U.S. Grand Strategy." International Security 10, no. 1 (Summer 1989): 5-49.
A late Cold War argument for U.S. engagement in Europe and withdrawal from the Third World.
Lynn-Jones, Sean M., and Steven E. Miller, eds. America's Strategy in a Changing World: An International Security Reader. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992.
David, Steven R. "Why the Third World Matters." International Security 14, no. 1 (Summer 1989): 50-85.
A late Cold War argument for continued engagement in the Third World.
Spykman, Nicholas. America's Strategy in World Politics: The United States and the Balance of Power. NY: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1942.
A prominent early argument for European engagement, premised on geopolitics.
Burnham, James. Containment or Liberation? An Inquiry into the Aims of United States Foreign Policy. NY: John Day, 1954.
The best statement of the rollback viewpoint.
Tucker, Robert W. A New Isolationism: Threat or Promise?. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Associates, 1972.
A statement of the isolationist viewpoint.
David, Steven R. "Why the Third World Still Matters." International Security 17, no. 3 (Winter 1992/93): 127-159.
David argues that the Third World mattered in the Cold War and still matters today. An anti-Kennan view.
Huntington, Samuel P. "America's Changed Strategic Interests." Survival 33, no. 1 (January/February 1991): 3-17.
U.S. National Security Policy
Smoke, Richard. National Security and the Nuclear Dilemma: An Introduction to the American Experience in the Cold War. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1993.
Art, Robert J., and Kenneth N Waltz, eds. The Use of Force. 3rd ed. NY: University Press of America, 1988. ISBN: 819170038.
Bundy, McGeorge. Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years. NY: Random House, 1988.
Reichart, John F., and Steven R. Sturm, eds. American Defense Policy. 5th ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1982. ISBN: 0801827574.
Miller, Steven E., ed. Strategy and Nuclear Deterrence: An International Security Reader. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.
Miller, Steven E., and Sean M. Lynn-Jones, eds. Conventional Forces and American Defense Policy: An International Security Reader. Rev. ed. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1989.
Miller, Steven E., and Stephen Van Evera, eds. Naval Strategy and National Security: An International Security Reader. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988.
Eden, Lynn, and Steven E. Miller, eds. Nuclear Arguments: Understanding the Strategic Nuclear Arms and Arms Control Debates. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989.
Sagan, Scott D. Moving Targets: Nuclear Strategy and National Security. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989.
Kaplan, Fred. The Wizards of Armageddon. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1983.
Enthoven, Alain C., and K. Wayne Smith. How Much Is Enough? Shaping the Defense Program, 1961-1969. NY: Harper Colophon, 1971.
Williams, Cindy., ed. Holding the Line: U.S. Defense Alternatives for the 21st Century. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001.
Jordan, Amos A., William J. Taylor, and Lawrence J. Korb. "Nuclear Strategy." Chapter 11 in American National Security: Policy and Process. 4th ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, pp. 233-246. ISBN: 080184570X.作者: lijinzhu2000 时间: 2007-12-23 13:05
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