The open door era: United States foreign policy in the twentieth century / Michael Patrick Cullinane and Alex Goodall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cullinane, Michael Patrick, 1979- author.

Series:

BAAS paperbacks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

United States.

International relations.

Physical Description:

vii, 215 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]

Summary:

Examines the Open Door, the most influential US foreign policy of the twentieth century In 1899, US Secretary of State John Hay wrote six world powers calling for an 'Open Door' in China that would guarantee equal trading opportunities, curtail colonial annexation, and prevent conflict in the Far East. Within a year, the region had succumbed to renewed colonisation and war, but despite the apparent failure of Hay's diplomacy, the ideal of the Open Door emerged as the central component of US foreign policy in the twentieth century. Just as visions of 'Manifest Destiny' shaped continental expansion in the nineteenth century, Woodrow Wilson used the Open Door to make the case for a world 'safe for democracy', Franklin Roosevelt developed it to inspire the fight against totalitarianism and imperialism, and Cold War containment policy envisioned international communism as the latest threat to a global system built upon peace, openness, and exchange. In a concise yet wide-ranging examination of its origins and development, readers will discover how the idea of the Open Door came to define the American Century. Key Features Uncover the ideological wellspring of US foreign policy in the twentieth century, Presents debates over US foreign policy, including the 'Wisconsin School' critique of the Open Door as a mechanism of informal empire, Reveals both the consistency of US foreign policy thinking and offers a deeper context to critical foreign policy decisions, Contextualises the roots of contemporary US foreign policy Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Open Door Idea, 1893-1904 12

2 Imposing the Open Door, 1904-17 35

3 The Global Open Door, 1917-29 66

4 The Open Door in a Closed World, 1929-45 88

5 The Open Door and the Cold War, 1945-68 116

6 The Open Door Triumphant, 1968-91 148.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-200) and index.

ISBN:

9781477401309

147740130X

9781474401319

1474401317

OCLC:

978383830