Contents
Part I: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the
American Security State 1
1 Understanding U.S. Foreign Policy 3
2 The Cold War, the Cold War Consensus, and the
National Security Act of 1947 23
Part II: Case Studies from the Cold War 41
3 The Early Cold War: The 1950s 45
4 The Main Cold War Years: 1960s–1980s 65
5 The Transition from the Cold War to the Post-Cold War Period 111
Part III: The Rise of the American Security State 145
6 What the National Security Act Has Meant
for U.S. Foreign Policy 147
7 The National Security Act and the Militarization
of U.S. Foreign Policy 175
Notes 193
Bibliography 207
Index 213
