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Acknowledgments Without the help and support of many people, I could never have completed this work. Timothy McKeown patiently read and commented on many drafts, providing crucial suggestions and all the attention one could ask from a dissertation adviser. Also at the University of North Carolina, I benefited from the comments (skeptical as well as supportive) of the other members of my committee, Richard Kohn, Eric Mlyn, Lars Schoultz, and Terry Sullivan. Several others read all or part of the manuscript and provided valuable comments and suggestions. I would like to thank Erik Devereux, Gavan Duffy, Thomas Ferguson, Aaron Friedberg, David Gibbs, Frank Kofsky, Gregory Nowell, David Painter, Paul Papayoanou, Athan Theoharis, and Ellen Schrecker for their help. Many other people and institutions have provided special help. George Rabinowitz, Michael Munger, and Mira Wilkins provided important suggestions for handling the quantitative data. The staff at the Truman Presidential Library was exceptionally helpful and made research there a pleasure. Charles Myers at the University of Michigan Press has been an understanding and helpful editor. Many other friends and colleagues have responded to the ideas presented here and provided help of all kinds along the way. I have also benefited from the generosity of the University of North Carolina, the Harry S. Truman Library Institute, the Triangle Institute for Security Studies, and the Research Program in International Security at the Princeton University Center ofInternational Studies . The responsibility for any errors in this work is mine. ...

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