COLD WAR ALIGNMENTS

 

 

 

 

IDEOL-OGY

 

BUR.  POLIT.

 

ECON. INTER-EST

 

MILIT. STRAT-EGY

 

DOMES-TIC POL

 

REAL-ISM

 

“Yalta” School; bal. of power; power pol.

 

FDR; State Dept; Army

 

liberal world order; Marshall Plan; reverse course in Japan

 

NSC-68: A-Bomb; NATO; contain-ment & ltd. war in “grey areas”

 

strong President; lib-left coalition of internatl-ists

 

IDEAL-ISM/

NATL-

ISM

 

“Riga” school; US mission vs. Sov/Marxist mission

 

HST; CIA; NSC; weapons lobby; USAF

 

The Dollar: national business vs. MNCs

 

preventive war; rollback; Europe first

 

McCarthy-ism and right wing; “loss of China”; Sov spies

 

GLOBAL HUMAN.

 

Clash of empires; expan-sionist notions of natl security

 

power of MIC

 

Hege-mony: US Grand Area strategy;

Third World as object

 

US & Soviet intervntns to protect spheres; disregard for TW natlism

 

Natl Security State; insecure elites; paranoid pol.


                              POST-COLD WAR ALIGNMENTS

 

 

 

 

IDEOL-OGY

 

BUR. POL.

 

ECON. INTER-EST

 

MILI-TARY STRAT-EGY

 

DOMES-TIC POL.

 

REAL-ISM

 

self-reliance; unipol-arity; new world order

 

Pentagon, OTR, MIC

 

trade & aid tough-ness; resource & techno-natlism

 

containmt of rogue states; 2-war doctrine

 

Republi-can right & conserv.

Democrat coalition on democra-tization

 

IDEAL-ISM/NATLISM

 

geo-econom-ics; multipolar world; economic diplomacy

 

CIA, State, MNCs

 

globaliztn via IMF, WB, NAFTA, APEC, envirnmtl diplomacy

 

enlargemt; “new threats”; sanctions

 

marketiz-ation

 

GLOB. HUMAN-ISM

 

new world myths

 

profit motive; decline of human rts.

 

Poverty amidst plenty; growing inequali-ties;

envirnmtl destructn

 

major arms reductns; nuclear and other trans-national perils

 

reliance on NGOs; grassroots sustain-able developmt