Challenging US foreign policy: America and the world in the long twentieth century

Challenging US foreign policy: America and the world in the long twentieth century

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Some categorisations of US power have long governed analyses of American foreign policy - concepts such as 'empire', 'decline', 'superpower', 'the Cold War' and 'the War on Terror' - and have led to a distortion that sees US policy measured by broad labels, rather than on its own terms. This fresh new approachseeks to challenge these terms. BEVAN SEWELL is a Lecturer in American History at the University of Nottingham, UK. He has published articles in 'Diplomatic History', 'The English Historical Review', and 'Intelligence and National Security', and is currently working on a book on US development policy in Latin America. SCOTT LUCAS is Professor of American Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK, and has held posts at University College Dublin, Ireland, American University Beirut, Lebanon,and Tehran University, Iran. He is the author of nine books and more than 40 major articles on US and British foreign policy since 1945, intelligence series, public diplomacy, and media. He is also the founder of EA WorldView, a leading web-based provider of news and analysis on international affairs. INDICE: Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; 'B.Sewell' & 'S.Lucas - 'PART I: AMERICA POWER AND THE WORLD - Reflex Actions: Colonialism, Corruptionand the Politics of Technocracy in the Early 20th Century United States; 'P.Kramer' - Ambassador W. Averell Harriman and the Shift in U.S. Policy toward Moscow after Roosevelt's Death; 'F.Costigliola - 'The Kennan Diaries; 'D.Milne' - Ideology, Race, and Nonalignment in U.S. Cold War Foreign Relations: Or, Howthe Cold War Racialized Neutralism without Neutralizing Race; 'J.Parker' - America's Great Game: The CIA and the Middle East, 1947-67; 'H.Wilford' - The Perfect and Sustainable Road to Economic Development?: The Eisenhower Administration and Latin America; 'B.Sewell' - The Defeat of Ernest Lefever's Nomination: Keeping Human Rights on the United States Foreign Policy Agenda; 'S.Snyder' - PART II: CONTEMPORARY NARRATIVES: POWER AND INTERVENTION - Areas of Concern:Area Studies and the New American Studies; 'J.C. Rowe' - Libertas or Fri? On US Liberty, Decline, Freedom and Pluralism; 'D.Ryan' - The United States and the United Nations: Hegemony, Unilateralism and the Limits of Internationalism;'A.Johnstone - 'The US War in Iraq: Confronting the Vietnam Analogy; 'A.Priest' - Domesticating Katrina: Eliding the International Coordinates of a 'Natural' Disaster; 'A.Hartnell' - From Ends to Means: American Foreign Policy and Women's Rights; 'H.Laville' - Conclusion; 'S.Lucas' - Index

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-24989-9
  • Editorial: Palgrave MacM
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Páginas: 320
  • Fecha Publicación: 13/10/2011
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés