Title Challenging US foreign policy : America and the world in the long twentieth century / edited by Bevan Sewell and Scott Lucas

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 302 pages) Contents Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction; B. Sewell & S. Lucas -- PART I: AMERICA POWER AND THE WORLD -- Reflex Actions: Colonialism, Corruption and 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, How the 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 Reflex actions : colonialism, corruption and the politics of technocracy in the early 20th century United States / Paul Kramer -- Ambassador W. Averell Harriman and the shift in U.S. policy toward Moscow after Roosevelt's death / Frank Costigliola -- The Kennan Diaries / David Milne -- Ideology, race, and nonalignment in U.S. Cold War foreign relations, or, How the Cold War racialized neutralism without neutralizing race / Jason Parker -- America's great game : the CIA and the Middle East, 1947-67 / Hugh Wilford -- The perfect and sustainable road to economic development? : the Eisenhower administration and Latin America / Bevan Sewell -- The defeat of Ernest Lefever's nomination : keeping human rights on the United States foreign policy agenda / Sarah Snyder -- Areas of concern : area studies and the new American studies / John Carlos Rowe -- Libertas or Fri? : on US liberty, decline, freedom and pluralism / David Ryan -- The United States and the United Nations : hegemony, unilateralism and the limits of internationalism / Andrew Johnstone -- The US war in Iraq : confronting the Vietnam analogy / Andrew Priest -- Domesticating Katrina : eliding the international coordinates of a 'natural' disaster / Anna Hartnell -- American foreign policy and women's rights / Helen Laville Summary Looking further than other histories and interpretations of US foreign policy from 1890 to the present, this collection of critiques of US power does not assume that the world is always centred around Washington. Instead, the authors describe and evaluate an America that not only possesses great political, military, and economic power but faces growing challenges to that power, not through 'terrorism' or economic collapse, but through the evolving conceptions of others who do not necessarily see the world as one where Washington leads and others follow. The scholars in Challenging US Foreign Policy do not present their analyses as 'pro-American' or 'anti-American'. In their considerations - from the Philippines to the Middle East to Latin America, from the economy to warplanes to human rights - they do not see the world as ordered by an American exceptionalism. The picture they paint is one beyond George W. Bush's 2001 declaration of power, 'You are with us or you are with the terrorists.' Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Subject History of the Americas -- USA. -- 20th century. 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 -- USA. -- 20th century. International relations -- USA. -- 20th century. HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century. HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International. History. Diplomatic relations History of the Americas -- United States of America, USA -- 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999. International relations -- United States of America, USA -- 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999. History. SUBJECT United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140089 Subject United States Form Electronic book Author Sewell, Bevan, 1980- Lucas, Scott ISBN 9780230349209 023034920X 134932101X 9781349321018 9780230249899 0230249892 1283360608 9781283360609 9786613360601 6613360600

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