Challenging US Foreign Policy

America and the World in the Long Twentieth Century

B. Sewell, S. Lucas, B. Sewell, S. Lucas

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9780230249899
• eBook ISBN:
  9780230349209
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Modern History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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 approach seeks to challenge these terms.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on the Contributors
• Introduction
• 1 Reflex Actions: Colonialism, Corruption and the Politics of Technocracy in the Early Twentieth Century United States
• 2 Ambassador W. Averell Harriman and the Shift in US Policy toward Moscow after Roosevelt’s Death
• 3 The Kennan Diaries
• 4 Ideology, Race and Nonalignment in US Cold War Foreign Relations: or, How the Cold War Racialized Neutralism Without Neutralizing Race
• 5 America’s Great Game: The CIA and the Middle East, 1947–67
• 6 The Perfect and Sustainable Road to Economic Development?: The Eisenhower Administration and Latin America
• 7 The Defeat of Ernest Lefever’s Nomination: Keeping Human Rights on the United States Foreign Policy Agenda
• 8 Areas of Concern: Area Studies and the New American Studies
• 9 Libertas or Fri? On US Liberty, Decline, Freedom and Pluralism
• 10 The United States and the United Nations: Hegemony, Unilateralism and the Limits of Internationalism
• 11 The US War in Iraq: Confronting the Vietnam Analogy
• 12 Domesticating Katrina: Eliding the International Coordinates of a ‘Natural’ Disaster
• 13 American Foreign Policy and Women’s Rights Helen Laville
• Conclusion
• Index