Hard Line: The Republican Party and U.S. Foreign Policy since World War II

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CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Introduction Conservative Traditions in U.S. Foreign Policy 1 Chapter One Republicans, Conservatives, and U.S. Foreign Policy 11 Chapter Two Robert Taft The Conservative as Anti-Interventionist 39 Chapter Three Dwight Eisenhower The Conservative as Balancer 85 Chapter Four Barry Goldwater The Conservative as Hawk 117 Chapter Five Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger Realists as Conservatives 142 Chapter Six Ronald Reagan The Idealist as Hawk 187 Chapter Seven George H. W. Bush The Conservative as Realist 232 Chapter Eight George W. Bush The Nationalist as Interventionist 265 Conclusion Republicans and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Age of Obama 290 Notes 323 Index 359 ...