New from Cambridge University Press: NSC 68 and the Political Economy of the Early Cold War by Curt Cardwell.About the book, from the publisher:
NSC 68 and the Political Economy of the Early Cold War reexamines the origins and implementation of NSC 68, the massive rearmament program that the United States embarked on beginning in the summer of 1950. Curt Cardwell reinterprets the origins of NSC 68 to demonstrate that the aim of the program was less about containing communism than ensuring the survival of the nascent postwar global economy, on which rested postwar U.S. prosperity. The book challenges most studies on NSC 68 as a document of geostrategy and argues, instead, that it is more correctly understood as a document rooted in concerns for the U.S. domestic political economy.Read an excerpt from NSC 68 and the Political Economy of the Early Cold War.
