Peddlers of crisis : the Committee on the Present Danger and the politics of containment

Traces the remarkable odyssey of the Committee on the Present Danger from political power to political exile and back. Contents Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction: The Omnipresent Danger 1 NSC-68: The Militarization of Containment 2 The Politics of Militarism: Internationalism and Isolationism Reconsidered 3 Shaping the Cold War Consensus: Elite Conflict and Mass Legitimation 4 NSC-68 to the Tet Offensive: The Long March of Containment Militarism 5 Detente: The Reawakening Of The Great Debate 6 Bellwether of Resurgent Militarism 7 Reshaping the Cold War Consensus: Carter’s Odyssey From Global Interdependence To Global Confrontation 8 Containment Militarism for the 1980s: Reagan and the CPD Rearm America 9 Foundering On the Shoals of Reality Bibliography Index Analyzes the U.S. foreign policy toward the Soviet Union