Running the world : the inside story of the National Security Council and the architects of American power /

Presents a history of the National Security Council, analyzing how each administration has used the NSC to define and shape foreign and military policy in line with their own political agenda.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rothkopf, David J. (David Jochanan), 1955- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : PublicAffairs, [2005]
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	National Security Council (U.S.) USA > National Security Council USA / National Security Council. 88.11 central government bodies. Großmachtpolitik National Security Council. Politiek. National security > United States. United States of America. National security. Foreign policy. International peace and security. Terrorism. Government. Politics.
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Table of Contents:

The committee in charge of running the world
Washington's choice
Greatness thrust upon them
Gulliver embarks: leaders, leadership, and the difference between the two
Bound in Lilliput
America in decline, the NSC ascendant
A superpower in search of itself
Morning in America, twilight at the NSC
Across a bright line in history
The new, improved, post-Cold War, Information-Age, indispensable nation
The beginning of the end of the end of history
A thumb on the scales: tipping the balance in the battle between the traditionalists and the transformationalists
U.S. foreign policy in the age of ambiguity.