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The United Nations and U.S. foreign policy : a new look at the national interest /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bloomfield, Lincoln P., 1920-2013
Corporate Author: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for International Studies
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Little, Brown, [1960]
Series:UN project (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for International Studies)
Subjects:
United Nations > United States.
United States > Foreign relations > 1945-1989.
World politics > 1945-1989.
États-Unis > Relations extérieures > 1945-1989.
Politique mondiale > 1945-1989.
United Nations.
Diplomatic relations.
World politics.
United States.
Foreign policy.
UN.
FOREIGN POLICY.
UNITED STATES.
1945-1989
Table of Contents:
  • I. The United Nations and the national interest
  • One. The place of the United Nations in national strategy
  • Introduction
  • The obstacles to planning
  • New directions in planning
  • Two. Strategic doctrine and national interest--a guide for planning
  • The historical setting
  • The national interest
  • The meaning of national interest
  • The larger national interest
  • American goals
  • II. The United Nations and national security
  • Three. The changing setting for military strategy
  • Four. General war and limited war
  • Deterrence
  • General war
  • Limited East-West hostilities
  • Five.
  • Lesser conflicts and a U.N. force
  • A nonfighting international force
  • The difficulties and a proposal
  • United States policy
  • Six. Subversion and indirect aggression
  • Seven. Disarmament
  • The uses of the United Nations
  • III. The United Nations and the Cold War
  • Eight. The changing Soviet view of the changing United Nations
  • The U.S. view of the Communist system
  • The Soviet view of the United Nations
  • Nine. The U.N. influence on communism
  • Direct influence: illusion and reality
  • Common interests + Communist vulnerabilities
  • IV. Toward a more stable world
  • Ten. The settlement of international disputes
  • The United Nations as neutral ground
  • U.N. "presence"
  • The U.N. Secretariat and international disputes
  • Eleven. Peaceful change
  • Disputed areas
  • International waterways
  • Antarctica and outer space
  • Twelve. The underdeveloped countries
  • Economic development and the United Nations
  • Ideology and economic policy
  • The population problem
  • Thirteen. The liquidation of Western colonial rule
  • Colonialism and free world unity
  • Colonialism and U.S. policy
  • The road ahead
  • Fourteen. Constructive alternatives for the new nationalism
  • V. The goal of world order
  • Fifteen. The basis for planning
  • Sixteen. The creation of community
  • The creation of limited communities
  • Seventeen. Toward a rule of law
  • Legal and political disputes
  • A more lawful world order
  • A perspective
  • Appendix. The mechanics of U.S. participation in the United Nations
  • Index.