Cold War Liberalism: Power in a Time of Emergency (Military, War, and Society in Modern American History) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1009448730 ISBN 13: 9781009448734

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2026

Synopsis

A wide-ranging history of Cold War liberalism, showing how the ideology shaped politics and culture in the US and Western Europe.

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About the Authors

Daniel Bessner is the Anne H. H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Associate Professor in American Foreign Policy in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington. He is the author of Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual; the co-editor, with Michael Brenes, of Rethinking US World Power: Domestic Histories of US Foreign Relations; and the co-editor, with Nicolas Guilhot, of The Decisionist Imagination: Sovereignty, Social Science, and Democracy in the 20th Century.

Michael Brenes is the co-director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy and Lecturer in History at Yale University. He has authored and edited several books, including For Might and Right: Cold War Defense Spending and the Remaking of American Democracy and, with Daniel Bessner, Rethinking US World Power: Domestic Histories of US Foreign Relations.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009448730
• ISBN 13: 9781009448734
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 306
• Editor: Bessner Daniel, Brenes Michael