Patriotism, democracy, and common sense : restoring America's promise at home and abroad
Patriotism, Democracy, and Common Sense is a new strategic analysis of common-sense alternatives to the public policies America has pursued since September 11, 2001. This important book features more than three dozen internationally known experts in economics, foreign and domestic policy, media, and political action.
Print Book, English, ©2005
1st pbk. ed View all formats and editions
Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation : Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD, ©2005
xvi, 478 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
9780742542174, 0742542173
76829024
The big picture / Alan Curtis
National security in the twenty-first century / Gary Hart
The challenge of managing dominance / Jessica Tuchman Mathews
A compromised Central Intelligence Agency : what can be done? / Ray McGovern
Does America have the wisdom to grasp the opportunity? / Clare Short
The courage to keep on talking / Vivien Stern
The European mistrust of American leadership / William Wallace
America needs Europe / Sophie Body-Gendrot
Challenging empire : the United Nations in a new internationalism / Phyllis A. Bennis
Speaking truth to power : preventive diplomacy backed by force / William D. Hartung
American foreign policy : a tragic "success" / Michael Parenti
Concern and credibility / David Corn
The necessity of persuasion : keeping Congress engaged / Alton Frye
Security and democracy in the post-September 11 era / Raymond Shonholtz
Village democracy and presidential leadership / Joseph C. Wilson IV
Domino democracy : challenges to U.S. foreign policy in a post-Saddam Middle East / Eric M. Davis
American leadership to create a two-state solution / Chris Toensing
Awakening the American political debate on Palestine and Israel / Laurie E. King-Irani
The future political and economic architecture of the Middle East / E. Roger Owen
We are still all Americans / Julian Borger
The financial, political, and moral deficits of the American empire / Jeff Faux
The coming budget crisis and the rising threat of large-scale federal disinvestment / Robert Greenstein
Full employment and the perils of empire / James K. Galbraith
Concentrated power without responsibility / Ralph Nader
Resequencing the DNA of capitalism / William Greider
The failure of "free market-tough state" ideology / Elliott Currie
September 11 and the criminal justice system / Marc Mauer
The missing debate / Richard C. Leone
It is time to break the silence / Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich
Civil liberties and effective investigation / Coleen M. Rowley
Creation of the media democracy reform movement / Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols
Electronic advocacy and fundraising : the state of the art / Eli Pariser
Electronic counter-power and collective action / Howard Rheingold
Independent reporting and the people's media / Amy Goodman
Lessons from 1964 / Eric Alterman
Thieves in high places / Jim Hightower
Generating political hope in a time of fear / Micah L. Sifry
Who has the emerging majority now? / Ruy Teixeira
American politics and policy : we don't have time to despair / Fred R. Harris