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Shields of the Republic: The Triumph and Peril of America’s Alliances

by Mira Rapp-Hooper

Is America’s alliance system so quietly effective that politicians and voters fail to appreciate its importance in delivering the security they take for granted? For the first century and a half of its existence, the United States had just one alliance―a valuable but highly controversial military arrangement with France. Largely out of deference to George Wa

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Publication date

2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

272

ISBN

9780674982956