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Author Shapiro, Ian.

Title Containment : rebuilding a strategy against global terror / Ian Shapiro.

Publication Info. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 192 pages)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-178) and index.
Contents The idea vacuum -- End of the criminal justice consensus -- Filling the vacuum -- Containment for democracy -- Containment's realism -- Democracy for containment -- Our present peril.
Summary In this powerfully argued book, Ian Shapiro shows that the idea of containment offers the best hope for protecting Americans and their democracy into the future. His bold vision for American security in the post-September 11 world is reminiscent of George Kennan's historic "Long Telegram," in which the containment strategy that won the Cold War was first developed. The Bush Doctrine of preemptive war and unilateral action has been marked by incompetence--missed opportunities to capture Osama bin Laden, failures of postwar planning for Iraq, and lack of an exit strategy. But Shapiro contends tha.
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Subject Terrorism -- Prevention -- Government policy -- United States.
National security -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Terrorism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Terrorism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Security (National & International)
National security. (OCoLC)fst01033711
Terrorism -- Prevention -- Government policy. (OCoLC)fst01148127
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form History (OCoLC)fst01411628
Electronic books.
Added Title Rebuilding a strategy against global terror
Other Form: Print version: Shapiro, Ian. Containment. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2007 9780691137070 0691137072 (OCoLC)181142145
ISBN 9781400827565 (electronic bk.)
1400827566 (electronic bk.)
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