U.S. Political Responses to Threats: 1940s & 2003

In a paper presented at the November 2002 Convention of the International Studies AssociationùNortheast, John W. Dietrich (1) delineated the similarities in the policy responses by the Bush Administration to perceived and actual threats to the national security of the United States in the 2001-2003 period to the policy responses by the Truman Administration in the late-1940s. While recognizing policy differences between the Truman Administration and the second Bush Administration dictated largely by (a) differences in the perceived and actual threats prevailing in the two periods, (b) differences between the two periods in relation to the sources of perceived and real threats, and (c) dramatically different geopolitical structures that characterize the two periods, Dietrich (2-3), contended that consistencies in approaches to policy development, implementation, and potential outcomes link the two periods.

One of the consistencies linking the Truman Administration and the second Bush Administ

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