Challenging US foreign policy : America and the world in the long twentieth century / edited by Bevan Sewell and Scott Lucas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sewell, Bevan, 1980-

Lucas, Scott.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Foreign relations--20th century.

United States.

International relations.

Physical Description:

xii, 302 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Challenging U.S. foreign policy

Challenging United States foreign policy

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Summary:

Looking further than other histories and interpretations of US foreign policy in the modern era, this collection of critiques of US power does not assume that the world is always centred around Washington. Instead, the authors describe and evaluate an America that not only possesses great political, military, and economic power but faces growing challenges to that power, not through 'terrorism' or economic collapse, but through the evolving conceptions of others who do not necessarily see the world as one where Washington leads and others follow.

The scholars in Challenging US Foreign Policy do not present their analyses as 'pro-American' or 'anti-American'. In their considerations-from the Philippines to the Middle East to Latin America, from the economy to warplanes to human rights - they do not see the world as ordered by an American exceptionalism. The picture they paint is one beyond George W. Bush's 2001d declaration of power, 'You are with us or you are with the terrorists'. Book jacket.

Contents:

Reflex actions : colonialism, corruption and the politics of technocracy in the early 20th century United States / Paul Kramer

Ambassador W. Averell Harriman and the shift in U.S. policy toward Moscow after Roosevelt's death / Frank Costigliola

The Kennan Diaries / David Milne

Ideology, race, and nonalignment in U.S. Cold War foreign relations, or, How the Cold War racialized neutralism without neutralizing race / Jason Parker

America's great game : the CIA and the Middle East, 1947-67 / Hugh Wilford

The perfect and sustainable road to economic development? : the Eisenhower administration and Latin America / Bevan Sewell

The defeat of Ernest Lefever's nomination : keeping human rights on the United States foreign policy agenda / Sarah Snyder

Areas of concern : area studies and the new American studies / John Carlos Rowe

Libertas or Fri? : on US liberty, decline, freedom and pluralism / David Ryan

The United States and the United Nations : hegemony, unilateralism and the limits of internationalism / Andrew Johnstone

The US war in Iraq : confronting the Vietnam analogy / Andrew Priest

Domesticating Katrina : eliding the international coordinates of a 'natural' disaster / Anna Hartnell

American foreign policy and women's rights / Helen Laville.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230249899

0230249892

OCLC:

729342512