This book offers a nuanced and multifaceted collection of essays covering a wide range of concerns, concepts, presidential doctrines, and rationalities of government thought to have marked America’s engagement with the world during this period. The collection is organised chronologically and looks at the work of intellectuals who have written both in support and critically about US foreign policy in various geographical and historical contexts. This includes Andrew Carnegie, Carl Schmitt, Hans Morgenthau, George Kennan, Samuel Huntington, Paul Wolfowitz and many other such thinkers and practitioners who have contributed in shaping the ways in which we have come to think of US foreign policy over the years. The book will be of significant interest to students and academics within the fields of US foreign policy analysis, international relations and intellectual history.
This is the latest edition of a major work on the history of American foreign policy. The volume reflects the revisionism prevalent in the field but offers balanced accounts.
This book should be of interest to undergraduate students taking courses in politics and American studies.
This text integrates the study of presidential politics and foreign policy making from the Vietnam aftermath to the NATO intervention in Kosovo.
With a new American administration in office, this is an opportune time to assess American foreign policy and to set future directions: 1.
The History of American Foreign Policy
William Widenor, Henry Cabot Lodge and the Search for an American Foreign Policy, Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1880, p. 339; Thompson, A Sense of Power, pp. 99–100. 122. Thompson, A Sense of Power, pp.
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There are other areas where the power of the two branches at best overlap or at worst conflict . One of the most dramatic has to do with the decision to go to war . Here , too , the Constitution builds in ambiguities .
... and—in particular—to maintain American naval predominance across the Pacific, up to and including the East China Sea. ... garrisons on occupied territory, but by agreement with her friends and allies: Americas Overseas Garrisons, p.
En kronologisk gennemgang af USA's udenrigspolitik fra 1945 op til 1967. Næsten alle de begivenheder USA har været indblandet i gennem disse år er nævnt og kommenteret i bogen.