The Collapse of the Middle Way: Senate Republicans and the Bipartisan Foreign Policy, 1948-1952

by David Kepley

Overview

The Truman years saw the beginnings of a dramatic shift in the Republican party's approach to foreign policy and a growing congressional commitment to bipartisanship in foreign affairs. Traditional Republican isolationism, expressed in widespread opposition to overseas political commitments such as NATO and the Marshall Plan, gave way to an internationalist Republican sentiment that called for a militant anti-Communist posture and commitment on a global scale. In this new study, Kepley explains how and why a Cold War consensus developed in the Senate, and he explores the implications of that process for the recurrent conflict between the president and Congress over the conduct of foreign affairs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313257841
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/22/1988
Series:	Contributions in American History , #12
Pages:	214
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

DAVID R. KEPLEY is an Archivist for the National Archives and an instructor at Northern Virginia Community College.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
The Origins of Bipartisanship, 1942-1948
The North Atlantic Treaty and the Military Assistance Program, January-September 1949
The Senate and the Fall of China, 1949
The Republicans and Formosa, October 1949-January 1950
McCarthyism and Bipartisanship, January-June 1950
Bipartisanship and the Korean War, June-November 1950
The Great Debate of 1951
MacArthur and the Demise of the Old Bipartisanship
Dulles, Eisenhower, and the New Bipartisanship
Conclusions
Abbreviations in Notes
Notes to Chapters
Note on Sources
Index