Foreign policy at the periphery : the shifting margins of US international relations since World War II / edited by Bevan Sewell and Maria Ryan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sewell, Bevan, 1980- editor.

Ryan, Maria, 1979- editor.

Series:

Studies in conflict, diplomacy, and peace

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.

United States.

International relations.

United States--Foreign relations--1989-.

Physical Description:

vi, 384 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2017]

Summary:

Featuring original essays by leading scholars, Foreign Policy at the Periphery examines relationships between new nations and the United States from the end of the Second World War through the global War on Terror. The contributors focus on four key topics-strategy, economics, culture, and the role of nongovernmental actors-which have had a profound effect on the evolution of America's perception of its role in the world and the reach of its influence. Rather than reviewing familiar flashpoints of US foreign policy, this volume explores neglected but significant developments such as the efforts of evangelical missionaries in the Congo, the 1958 stabilization agreement with Argentina, Henry Kissinger's policies regarding Latin America during the 1970s, and petrodollar-financed terrorism in Libya. Blending new, internationalist approaches to diplomatic history with recently released archival materials, Foreign Policy at the Periphery brings together diverse strands of scholarship to address compelling issues in modern world history. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / Bevan Sewell and Maria Ryan

Part I. Themes

How the periphery became the center: the Cold War, the third world, and the transformation in US strategic thinking / Robert J. McMahon

Peripheral vision: US modernization efforts and the periphery / David Ekbladh

Narratives of core and periphery: the Cold War and after / Andrew J. Rotter

US government responses to anti-Americanism at the periphery / Alan McPherson

Peripheral places/global war / Simon Dalby

Part II. Case studies

Whistling in the dark: US efforts to navigate UN policy toward decolonization, 1945-1963 / Mary Ann Heiss

One world? rethinking america's margins, 1935-1945 / Ryan Irwin

Accidental diplomats: the influence of American evangelical missionaries on US relations with the Congo during the early Cold War period, 1959-1963 / Philip Dow

Structuring the economy on the periphery: the United States, the 1958 Argentine stabilization agreement, and the evolution of global capitalism / Dustin Walcher

Dialogue or détente: Henry Kissinger, Latin America, and the prospects for a new inter-American understanding, 1973-1977 / Tanya Harmer

Uncertainty rising: oil money and international terrorism in the 1970s / Christopher R. W. Dietrich

The peripheral center: Nicaragua in US policy and the US imagination at the end of the Cold War / David Ryan

Enlargement and its discontents: core and periphery in Clinton-era foreign policy / Hal Brands

The war on terror and the new periphery / Maria Ryan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813168470

0813168473

OCLC:

945951470