The Fate of Nations: The Search for National Security in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

The Fate of Nations identifies and illustrates the basic varieties of security policy, as well as re-interpreting six well-documented historical episodes: Great Britain and the nineteenth century balance of power system; France between the two world wars; The United States during the Cold War; China from the Communist victory in 1949 to 1976; Israel from the founding of the state in 1948 to the peace treaty with Egypt in 1979; Japan and the international economic order after 1945.Michael Mandelbaum is the author of 'The Fate of Nations: The Search for National Security in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries', published 1988 under ISBN 9780521355278 and ISBN 0521355273.