Shields of the Republic

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Shields of the Republic is written by Mira Rapp-Hooper and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674246020 (ISBN 10) and 9780674246027 (ISBN 13).

During the Cold War, the United States shook off its traditional aversion to alliances and built the most impressive peacetime treaty structure in history. Yet today politicians argue that the country is so secure it gains nothing paying the cost of mutual defense. In doing so, they threaten a key source of that security: the alliances themselves.