American foreign policy : studies in intellectual history / Jean-Francois Drolet, James Dunkerley [editors].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Drolet, Jean-François., editor.

Dunkerley, James, editor.

Series:

Manchester International Relations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diplomacy--United States.

Diplomacy.

United States--Foreign relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The middle months of 2016 in the North Atlantic world offered a distinctly depressing constellation. 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 spate of killings of African Americans raised acute issues about the very parameters of citizenship that predated the era of Civil Rights and revived views on race associated with the pre- Civil War republic. The book analyses an account of world politics that gives ontological priority to 'race' and assigns the state a secondary or subordinate function. Andrew Carnegie set out to explain the massive burst in productivity in the United States between 1830 and 1880, and in so doing to demonstrate the intrinsic superiority of republicanism. He called for the abolition of hereditary privilege and a written constitution. The book also offers an exegesis of the US foreign policy narrative nested in the political thought of the German jurist Carl Schmitt. Understanding the nature of this realist exceptionalism properly means rethinking the relationship between realism and liberalism. The book revisits Samuel Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order, which reviews the intellectual and policy environment of the immediate post- Cold War years. Finally, it discusses Paul Dundes Wolfowitz, best known for his hawkish service to the George W. Bush administration, and his strong push for the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Contents:

Introduction: Thinking about America in the world over the longer run / James Dunkerley

1. The strange career of nation-building as a concept in US foreign policy / Jeremi Suri

2. Race, utopia, perpetual peace: Andrew Carnegie's dreamworld / Duncan Bell

3. Carl Schmitt and the American century / Jean-François Drolet

4. Realist exceptionalism: philosophy, politics, and foreign policy in America's 'second modernity' / Vibeke Schou Tjalve and Michael C. Williams

5. The social and political construction of the Cold War / Tracy B. Strong

6. Chaotic epic: Samuel Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order revisited / James Dunkerley

7. Paul Wolfowitz and the promise of American power, 1969-2001 / David Milne.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Mar 2026).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781526116536

1526116537

9781526128515

1526128519

9781526116512

1526116510

OCLC:

999624315