Compound Dilemmas: Democracy, Collective Action, and Superpower Rivalry

by John Williams and Michael D. McGinnis

For most of the period after World War II until the fall of the Soviet empire, there was a remarkable consensus in the United States in support of our policies toward the Soviet Union. This consensus resulted in enormous defense expenditures and in the development of a system of alliances that spanned the globe and marked a vast expansion of America's overseas obligations. Compound Dilemmas addresses the question of how such widespread domestic support...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472112074
• ISBN13: 9780472112074
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.7"