Globocop: How America Sold Its Soul and Lost Its Way - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Globocop: How America Sold Its Soul and Lost Its Way write by Mark David Ledbetter. This book was released on 2004-10-24. Globocop: How America Sold Its Soul and Lost Its Way available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first post 9-11 election gave us a choice between two big-government, high-tax globocops quibbling over the details, not an alternative to the aggressive international militarism that makes us the natural and logical target of terrorism. This book looks at the progression from republic protected by militia to empire protected by standing armies in Athens and Rome - and the similar progression in America. It looks at an alternative: The Swiss way, which has kept Switzerland free and republican for 700 years in the center of a warlike continent. America once understood and followed Washington's "Great Rule" and J. Q. Adams' admonition not to go out into the world in search of monsters to destroy. We were then the light, not the sword, of freedom. Now we have picked up the sword only to see the light grow dimmer year by year.
America's Forgotten History. Part Three: A Progressive Empire
America's Forgotten History. Part Three: A Progressive Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook America's Forgotten History. Part Three: A Progressive Empire write by Mark David Ledbetter. This book was released on 2015-04-30. America's Forgotten History. Part Three: A Progressive Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "America's Forgotten History" is the story of America seen through libertarian eyes. It aims to be a good story, and one sympathetic to all sides. Part Three of the series, "A Progressive Empire," takes us from the end of the Civil War to the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection. Along the way, as we trace party politics and presidencies, we look at... - Reconstruction and the Freedmen - The Indian Wars in the West - The land grant railroads - The labor and farmer movements - Populism and Progressivism - The Social Gospel and Christian Socialism - Jim Crow laws and Sundown Towns In the climactic final chapter, an America both driven to lead and fearful of being left behind finally joins Europe and Japan in the pursuit of overseas colonies. 1898 would mark the great if largely forgotten turning point when America became a progressive empire.
America's Forgotten History: Part One. Foundations
America's Forgotten History: Part One. Foundations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook America's Forgotten History: Part One. Foundations write by Mark David Ledbetter. This book was released on 2005-03-29. America's Forgotten History: Part One. Foundations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is it America's destiny to be both a nanny state and garrison state? America's Forgotten History questions standard history from a constitutionalist point of view. This, the first of five volumes, covers English roots, the colonial period, the Revolution, the Constitution, and the first four presidential administrations, those of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison. CONTACT [email protected]
America's Forgotten History: Part Two - Rupture
America's Forgotten History: Part Two - Rupture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook America's Forgotten History: Part Two - Rupture write by Mark David Ledbetter. This book was released on 2005-11-23. America's Forgotten History: Part Two - Rupture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Continuation of Part One. Monroe to Lincoln, each president a chapter. The struggle between Jeffersonianism and Hamiltonianism continues, but slavery warps the debate. Westward expansion, tariffs and free trade vs. government/business collusion. The Great Awakening. John Quincy Adams. Marshall, Clay, and Lincoln. Jackson and Van Buren. And finally, Puritans and Cavaliers dispute once again their deep cultural divide in another great and terrible civil war on a new continent. CONTACT: [email protected]
United States Engagement in the Asia Pacific: Perspectives from Asia
United States Engagement in the Asia Pacific: Perspectives from Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook United States Engagement in the Asia Pacific: Perspectives from Asia write by Yoichiro Sato. This book was released on 2015-07-15. United States Engagement in the Asia Pacific: Perspectives from Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study brings together Asian and Asia-based experts of international relations and U.S. foreign policy to present diverse Asian views about preferred modes of U.S. engagement in the region and compare their views with U.S. interests in the region-a prerequisite exercise to truly multilateral regional security governance. With the rise of Chinese power in absolute and relative terms over the next decades as a key driving factor of the international relations in the Asia Pacific, the United States has announced its "Rebalance to Asia" (previously referred as "Pivot to Asia") strategy. Asian responses, perceptions, and even interpretations of the U.S. strategy have been diverse. Misconceptions of the U.S. strategy can be attributed to the built-in contradictions among its objectives, deliberate ambiguities left by the architects of the strategy, mismatch between the stated strategy and actual policy implementations during the last three years, and subjective reading by the Asian countries through the lens of their own interests. This book will illuminate the diversity of Asian responses and perceptions and analyze the underlying reasons of the diversity. The overarching framework of analysis for this book is the very dilemma of alliances-abandonment and entrapment-which "hedging" aims at evading. "Abandonment" fear is primarily of the junior partner of an alliance that its senior partner may not come to its aid in crisis. Meanwhile, "entrapment" fear works both ways. The United States may drag its allies into its conflict against a third party, but U.S. allies may also drag the United States into their regional conflicts in which the United States has no direct or significant stake. The Asian choices of their strategic responses to the U.S. Rebalancing will be described and analyzed through the lens of the perceived balance between the abandonment and entrapment fears as well as other historical and domestic factors unique to each Asian country. The reading of the U.S. strategy by Asian countries is a subjective matter, and their interests likely influence their analysis and consequently strategies. It is not the aim of this volume to establish well defined "cause-and-effect" chain between the U.S. strategy and Asian strategies, but thick descriptions have enabled some chapter authors to identify reciprocal relations between the two. While China's growth is the most important driver of the changing strategic landscape in the Asia Pacific and the new U.S. strategy, the new U.S. strategy inevitably influence the Chinese strategy, which in turn triggers a chain reaction of strategic revisions in Asian countries. This book is essential reading for scholars in Asian politics, U.S. foreign policy, international relations as well as for policy makers.
