Belknap Press, 2009. — 480 p. Long before the United States became a major force in global affairs, Americans believed in their superiority over others due to their inventiveness, productivity, and economic and social well-being. U.S. expansionists assumed a mandate to “civilize” non-Western peoples by demanding submission to American technological prowess and design. As an...
I.B. Tauris, 2006. — 272 p. This book takes a close look at the connection between the results of the Paris Peace Conference and the Immigration Acts of 1921 and 1924. Kristofer Allerfeldt identifies the threads of nativism, anti-Bolshevism, self-determination and fear that ran through America's participation in the Paris Peace Conference and then manifested themselves openly...
Greenwood Press, 1977. — 270 p. World Leadership and Human Material. The Psychological Impact of the Cold War. American Character and Foreign Policy. The Instability of Mood. Foreign Affairs in the Focus of Attention. Changes in the Foreign Policy Mood. Social Groupings and the Foreign Policy Mood. The Elites and Foreign Policy. The Foreign Policy Consensus. Competing Foreign...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. — 323 p. Woodrow Wilson's contributions to the creation of the League of Nations as well as his failures in the Senate battles over the Versailles treaty are stressed in this account of his leadership in international affairs.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 272 p. This book provides the first bilateral study of Greek–US relations during Greece’s transition to democracy in the second half of the 1970s. Following the 1974 Cyprus crisis, which led to the collapse of the Greek dictatorship and Athens’ partial withdrawal from NATO, many scholars have claimed that Greece moved away from the United States....
Routledge, 2015. — 337 p. This book presents a novel analysis of how US grand strategy has evolved from the end of the Cold War to the present, offering an integrated analysis of both continuity and change. The post-Cold War American grand strategy has continued to be oriented to securing an 'open door' to US capital around the globe. This book will show that the three...
Routledge, 2013. — 192 p. This book evaluates American foreign policy actions from the perspective of great power responsibility, with three case studies: Operation Iraqi Freedom, American drone strikes in Pakistan and the post- 9/11 practice of extraordinary rendition. This book argues that the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, American drone attacks in Pakistan and the practice of...
University Press of Kansas, 1989. — 272 p. The Road to Kettle Hill. In Cuba with Wood. Pacifying the Moros. An Available Agent. Mexico and the Approach of War. World War and Its Aftermath. Return to the Philippines.. Mission to Nicaragua. Troubleshooting for Stimson. The Lytton Commission. New Directions. The Far Eastern Commission. The End of the Day. Notes. Selected Bibliography.
Columbia University Press, 2007. — 608 p. Essays by a diverse and distinguished group of historians, political scientists, and sociologists examine the alarms, emergencies, controversies, and confusions that have characterized America's Cold War, the post-Cold War interval of the 1990s, and today's "Global War on Terror." This "Long War" has left its imprint on virtually every...
New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. — 270 p. In this provocative book, Andrew Bacevich warns of a dangerous dual obsession that has taken hold of Americans, both conservatives and liberals alike. It is a marriage of militarism and utopian ideology, of unprecedented military might wed to a blind faith in the universality of American values. This mindset, Bacevich warns,...
Henry Holt and Company, 2010. — 286 p. For the last half century, as administrations have come and gone, the fundamental assumptions about America's military policy have remained unchanged: American security requires the United States (and us alone) to maintain a permanent armed presence around the globe, and to be ready to intervene anywhere at any time. In the Obama era, just...
Metropolitan Books, 2021. — 224 p. A bold and urgent perspective on how American foreign policy must change in response to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Limits of Power and The Age of Illusions. The purpose of U.S. foreign policy has, at least theoretically, been to keep Americans safe. Yet as we confront...
Warszawa: Neriton, 2019. — 268 s. — ISBN 978-83-66018-21-1 Autorka książki bada, w jaki sposób kształtowało się myślenie o szczególnej roli Stanów Zjednoczonych w świecie, o idei posłannictwa w początkowym okresie wchodzenia tego państwa na arenę międzynarodową. Analiza dotyczy okresu pomiędzy rokiem 1898, tj. wojną USA z Hiszpanią, w wyniku której weszły one w posiadanie...
Princeton University Press, 2005. — 344 p. The American public has consistently declared itself less concerned with foreign affairs in the post-Cold War era, even after 9/11, than at any time since World War II. How can it be, then, that public attentiveness to U.S. foreign policy crises has increased? This book represents the first systematic attempt to explain this apparent...
Routledge, 2014. — 224 p. This edited volume is an innovative analysis of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy, security and counter-terrorism policy, specifically within the context of ending the now infamous War on Terror. The book adopts a comparative approach, analysing change and continuity in US foreign policy during Obama’s first term in office vis-à-vis the foreign...
Columbia University Press, 2012. — 385 p. While American national security policy has grown more interventionist since the Cold War, Washington has also hoped to shape the world. Misled by the stunning success against Iraq in 1991, administrations of both parties have pursued ambitious aims with limited force, committing the country's military frequently with inconsistent...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 234 p. This book identifies major elements that influenced Sino-US relations before the reform and opening up of said relations. These include the Taiwan question’s impact on the policies of both countries, the Korean War, the Cold War, Japan and the Sino-Soviet split. The book is divided into two complementary sections: the first addresses the...
Routledge, 2015. — 236 p. US foreign policy during the Cold War has been analysed from a number of perspectives, generating large bodies of literature attempting to explain its origins, its development and its conclusion. However, there are still many questions left only partially explained. In large part this is because these accounts restrict themselves to a single level of...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 241 p. Since the end of the Cold War, the United States has been a key driver of transitional justice. It has provided crucial political backing, as well as technical and financial assistance for trials, truth commissions, and other measures aimed at helping societies address serious human rights violations. Surprisingly, however, scholars have...
Scarecrow Press, 2005. — 511 p. Launching the new series of Historical Dictionaries of U.S. Diplomacy, this volume provides a convenient introduction to a critical period of American diplomacy. The half-century from 1861 to 1914 formed a crucial time in the development of the American approach to the world, for the United States laid the foundations for its 20th century foreign...
Encounter Books, 2010. — 48 p. Today, American sovereignty is more challenged than ever before, not from enemies that threaten us militarily but from “friends” who urge us to share or reduce our sovereignty for larger global objectives. How Barack Obama is Endangering our National Sovereignty reveals what sovereignty means to Americans, not as an abstraction but as a vibrant...
Threshold Editions, 2007. — 496 p. The son of a Baltimore fireman and the first person in his family to go to university, with scholarships to Yale College and Yale Law School, John Bolton candidly recounts his sixteen month tenure as US Ambassador to the United Nations, his Senate confirmation battle, and the highlights of his career in public service in two prior Republican...
Praeger, 2000. — 192 p. For nearly two centuries interaction between Spain and the United States was characterized by cultural and political differences, mutually perceived conflicts of national interest, and an asymmetry of power. Botero identifies the period from 1945 to 1953 as a watershed in relations, as the two countries moved from a hostile posture towards a friendly...
Routledge, 2014. — 200 p. The role of democracy promotion in US foreign policy has increased considerably in the last three decades, booming especially in the immediate years after the end of the Cold War. The rise of democracy promotion originated in a long historical tradition that saw exporting American political values as instrumental in securing US security and economic...
University of Missouri, 2017. — 206 p. Well-deployed primary sources and brisk writing by Wayne H. Bowen make this an excellent framework for understanding the evolution of U.S. policy toward Spain, and thus how a nation facing a global threat develops strategic relationships over time. President Harry S. Truman harbored an abiding disdain for Spain and its government. During his...
Cornell University Press, 2022. — 235 p. In Chained to History, Steven J. Brady places slavery at the center of the story of America's place in the world in the years prior to the calamitous Civil War. Beginning with the immediate aftermath of the War of the American Revolution, Brady follows the military, economic, and moral lines of the diplomatic challenges of attempting to...
Cornell University Press, 2016. — 482 p. In the late 1970s, the United States often seemed to be a superpower in decline. Battered by crises and setbacks around the globe, its post–World War II international leadership appeared to be draining steadily away. Yet just over a decade later, by the early 1990s, America’s global primacy had been reasserted in dramatic fashion. The...
Doubleday, 2016. — 448 p. — ISBN10: 0385540574; ISBN13: 978-0385540575 At the height of the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman committed a gaffe that sent shock waves around the world. When asked by a reporter about the possible use of atomic weapons in response to China's entry into the war, Truman replied testily, "The military commander in the field will have charge of...
Brookings Institution Press, 2001. — 165 p. The U.S.-French relationship is unique in mixing elements of rivalry and cooperation. Historical allies and comrades in arms, the United States and France are often fractious and quarrelsome. Their promotion of competing visions for a post-Cold War Europe gives a sharp edge to disputes over security and trade issues. Yet their mutual...
Penguin Books, 2010. — 569 p. — Ninth Revised Edition. One of the most lively and provocative interpretive studies of the major events in recent American diplomatic history." -American Historical Review Since it first appeared in 1971, Rise to Globalism has sold hundreds of thousands of copies. The ninth edition of this classic survey, now updated through the administration of...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2011. — 549 p. — (The New Cold War History). Throughout the Cold War, the United States encountered unexpected challenges from Italy and France, two countries with the strongest, and determinedly most anti-American, Communist Parties in Western Europe. Based primarily on new evidence from communist archives in France and Italy, as well as...
Routledge, 2015. — 152 p. Contrary to the view held by many who study American foreign policy, public diplomacy has seldom played a decisive role in the achievement of the country's foreign policy objectives. The reasons for this are not that the policies and interventions are ill-conceived or badly executed, although this is sometimes the case. Rather, the factors that limit...
Cornell University Press, 1973. — 368 p. Formative Years. Soldier, Businessman, and Politician. Philippine Independence. Saving Sinclair’s Chestnuts: Hurley and the Mexican Oil Expropriation. Itinerant Envoy: Hurley in the Southwest Pacific, Russia, and the Middle East. The Recall of General Stilwell. The Hopeful Broker: Negotiations in China, October 1944 to February 1945....
Routledge, 2020. — 302 p. Much attention has been focused on U.S. dependency on imports for supplies of strategic minerals and materials. There is alarm about the extent of that dependency and about the possibility that U.S. economic, political, and strategic decisions might be unduly influenced by arbitrary actions of foreign suppliers.
Routledge, 2015. — 226 p. The Vietnam War is one of the longest and most controversial in US history. This book seeks to explore what lessons the US military took from that conflict as to how and when it was appropriate for the United States to use the enormous military force at its disposal and how these lessons have come to influence and shape US foreign policy in subsequent...
University of Chicago Press, 2016. — 232 p. A century after his presidency, Woodrow Wilson remains one of the most compelling and complicated figures ever to occupy the Oval Office. A political outsider, Wilson brought to the presidency a distinctive, strongly held worldview, built on powerful religious traditions that informed his idea of America and its place in the world....
Praeger, 2013. — 457 p. This book provides a succinct and accessible interpretation of the major event and ideas that have shaped U.S. foreign relations since the American Revolution―historical factors that now affect our current debates and commitments in the Middle East as well as Europe and Asia. American Foreign Relations since Independence explores the relationship of...
Penguin Press, 2020. — 320 p. It's impossible to understand the last 75 years of American history, through to Trump and Brexit, without understanding the Anglo-American relationship, and specifically the bonds between presidents and prime ministers. FDR of course had Churchill; JFK famously had Macmillan, his consigliere during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Reagan found his...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. — 311 p. In The Black Republic, Brandon R. Byrd explores the ambivalent attitudes that African American leaders in the post-Civil War era held toward Haiti, the first and only black republic in the Western Hemisphere. Following emancipation, African American leaders of all kinds--politicians, journalists, ministers, writers, educators,...
LSU Press, 2021. — 277 p. "Disunited Nations" explores American reactions to hostile world opinion, as voiced in the United Nations by representatives of the Global South (i.e., regions outside North America and Europe), from 1970 to 1984. In the wake of the Vietnam War, Americans not only suffered self-doubt at home but searing condemnation abroad-especially in the "third" or...
Kent State University Press, 1993. — 185 p. Frederick S. Calhoun’s new book makes a timely and important contribution to examining one of the most serious questions confronting the nation’s foreign relations: When and how to use military force. By citing numerous examples from the past, Calhoun is able to show that there is an infinite variety of reasons behind, justification...
Routledge, 2019. — 208 p. A comprehensive account of ideology and its role in the foreign policy of the United States of America, this book investigates the way United States foreign policy has been understood, debated and explained in the period since the US emerged as a global force, on its way to becoming the world power. Starting from the premise that ideologies facilitate...
Routledge, 2005. — 257 p. Since the success of the best-selling first edition, the world has remained fascinated with US foreign policy, not least because of the far-reaching consequences of the US led invasion of Iraq. This fully updated textbook follows the events of the past two and a half years including the 2004 presidential campaign, whilst still providing a comprehensive...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. — 269 p. Making use of newly-researched archival material, this collection of original essays on wartime and postwar US foreign policy re-evaluates well-known crises and documents many less familiar aspects of the nation's mid-twentieth century conflicts. Leading diplomatic historians address familiar subjects from new angles. They offer new evidence...
Routledge, 1989. — 250 p. Focuses on the problem through the identification of specific trends in foreign policy: isolationism, intervention, containment, detente, and disengagement. The conclusion of this analysis is that the US foreign policy process is reactive and lacking in any long-term strategic planning mode.
Casemate, 2012. — 368 p. In this book Faith Whittlesey gives concrete meaning to the quotation through her life and career as an effective “Madam Ambassador” in the worlds of both money and politics. Raised in western New York State by highly motivated Irish-American parents of limited means, she worked to reach an eminent position as Ronald Reagan’s Ambassador to Switzerland...
Princeton University Press, 2016. — 330 p. While the American alliance system in Asia has been fundamental to the region's security and prosperity for seven decades, today it encounters challenges from the growth of China-based regional organizations. How was the American alliance system originally established in Asia, and is it currently under threat? How are competing...
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2012. — 154 p. Contributors to this volume include ambassadors, ex-diplomats, and senior research fellows who have presented their views and opinions on ASEAN-US relations in a coherent perspective, although with minute differences. In all there are eleven contributors who offer fresh perspectives on ASEAN-US multiple ties. A common theme...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 151 p. This book traces American engagement in the English-speaking Caribbean from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century, and is the first to examine the policies of Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump in this context. Focusing on The Bahamas, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana as case studies, the book describes the...
Princeton University Press, 1973. — 439 p. After the Spanish-American War the United States, both by design and by accident, became involved in the Caribbean and the Far East on a scale that would have seemed highly improbable before 1898. As an “emerging” world power, the United States had to grapple with new issues, among them the role of military men and military power in...
Peter Lang, 2016. — 298 p. This volume looks at a key component of recent US foreign relations, namely, its emphasis on "hearts and minds" as part of its cultural management of the global Other. The authors collected here analyze to what extent we can frame the intent and consequences of this term as a coherent policy, discussing how to think about foreign policy strategies...
Kent State University Press, 2011. — 315 p. The struggle to define U.S. national identity through a political conflict in Spain "An unusually original book that challenges established assumptions and reveals the complexity of American reactions to the Spanish Civil War."--Stanley G. Payne, University of Wisconsin-Madison In 1938 the United States was embroiled in a vicious...
Cornell University Press, 2020. — 304 p. In Civilizational Imperatives, Oliver Charbonneau reveals the little-known history of the United States' colonization of the Philippines' Muslim South in the early twentieth century. Often referred to as Moroland, the Sulu Archipelago and the island of Mindanao were sites of intense US engagement and laboratories of colonial modernity...
Forgotten Books, 2018. — 255 p. I can think of few problems of more immediate and funda mental importance than the relations between Congress and the Executive in the conduct of foreign affairs. Mr. Cheever and Mr. Haviland seem to me to have made an important contribution to the study of these problems in this book. The Constitutional Framework. The Organizational Structure....
Springer Nature, 2023. — 115 p. This book traces the development of U.S-led global nuclear non-proliferation diplomacy during the three decades since the Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” in 1953. The U.S. non-proliferation efforts had diverse obstacles. It had to prevent nuclear states’ export of nuclear technology while dissuading non-nuclear states from developing nuclear...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 256 p. Where as the Spanish-American War 1898 has long been studied as a turning point in American history, Grover Cleveland's foreign policy. Nick Cleaver's study illuminates the dynamism and ideals of Cleveland's diplomatic moment, revealing their continuities with the engagement and expansionism of the McKinley presidency.
Springer International Publishing, 2018. — 404 p. This book examines how the US is dealing with the challenge of reconciling its global interests with regional dynamics and how it is able to produce and sustain order at the system level and within regional subsystems. The book comprises four parts, the first of which addresses global issues such as nonproliferation, trade, and...
Lexington Books, 2022. — 284 p. John F. Kennedy remains a compelling figure almost sixty years after his tragic assassination. Kennedy’s voice—with all of its characteristic eloquence—as well as the engaging complexity of the man himself, are brought to life in John F. Kennedy’s 1957 Algeria Speech. This book deals with one of Kennedy’s most important as a U.S. Senator—but...
Routledge, 2019. — 245 p. This book, based on information consolidated to cover the calendar years 1978 and 1979, assesses the power of nations in the international context as a basis for planning American defense and foreign policy. It suggests a realistic way of thinking about the balance of power in the 1980s.
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 280 p. — ISBN10: 0190265884; ISBN13: 978-0190265885. In 1950, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were arrested for allegedly passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union, an affair FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover labeled the "crime of the century." Their case became an international sensation, inspiring petitions, letters of support,...
Cornell University Press, 2016. — 424 p. In 2012, Barack Obama became the first U.S. president ever to visit Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. This official state visit marked a new period in the long and sinuous diplomatic relationship between the United States and Burma/Myanmar, which Kenton Clymer examines in A Delicate Relationship. From the challenges of decolonization and...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 297 p. America's empire expanded dramatically following the Spanish-American War of 1898. The United States quickly annexed the Philippines and Puerto Rico, seized control over Cuba and the Panama Canal Zone, and extended political and financial power throughout Latin America. This age of empire, Benjamin Allen Coates argues, was also an age of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 327 p. This book considers eleven twelve key thinkers on American foreign policy during the inter-war period. All put forward systematic proposals for the direction, aims and instruments of American foreign policy; all were listened to, in varying degrees, by the policy makers of the day; all were influential in policy terms, as well as setting the...
Verso, 2004. — 352 p. The war on Iraq didn’t begin with the lethal pyrotechnics of Shock and Awe, and it didn’t end with George W. Bush’s made-for-TV aircraft landing. Undetected by the mainstream press, the US campaign against Iraq began many years before, featuring cruel sanctions, weekly bombardments, and assassinations. With Saddam deposed, the US now finds itself mired in...
Yale University Press, 2014. — 320 p. This book, the first in decades to closely examine Thomas Jefferson’s foreign policy, offers a compelling reinterpretation of his attitudes and accomplishments as a statesman during America’s early nationhood. Beginning with Jefferson’s disastrous stint as wartime governor of Virginia during the American Revolution, and proceeding to his...
Columbia University Press, 2018. — 312 p. Belief in the United States as a force for good in the world runs deep. Yet an honest consideration reveals a history marred by great crimes and ordinary errors, alongside many achievements and triumphs. In this comprehensive account of American foreign relations from the nation's founding through the present day, the diplomatic...
Blackwell, 2005. — 214 p. This sharp and authoritative account of American foreign relations analyzes the last 15 years of foreign policy in relation to the last 40 years, since the end of the Cold War. In 1989, the United States emerged as victor from the Cold War struggle. But what did victory mean? In the United States, commentators were divided in their views: some feared...
University Press of Kentucky, 2017. — 336 p. Throughout his presidency, Ronald Reagan sought "peace through strength" during an era of historic change. In the decades since, pundits and scholars have argued over the president's legacy: some consider Reagan a charismatic and consummate leader who renewed American strength and defeated communism. To others he was an ambitious and...
Edinburgh University Press, 2010. — 241 p. This book will offer a fresh, up-to-date, balanced overview of Lyndon B. Johnson's foreign policies across a range of theatres and issues with the aim of generating a proper understanding of his successes and failures in foreign policy.
ABC-CLIO, 2012. — 821 p. From the often-forgotten Washington Doctrine, to the Truman Doctrine that continues to influence our modern national security, to the Obama Doctrine that is still solidifying, American foreign and national security policy is shaped by the historical development of national security doctrines. In the post 9/11 world, with its continuing unrest and...
Prometheus Books, 2017. — 225 p. This eye-opening book takes a unique approach to the history of U.S. foreign policy by examining three unrelated conflicts, all of which ended tragically and resulted in the deaths of millions on both sides. By analyzing what went wrong in each case, the author uncovers a pattern of errors that should serve as a precaution for future decision...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1992. — 255 p. This is a narrative study of British diplomatic perceptions of Woodrow Wilson during his presidential campaign and presidency. Using archival material not previously explored for this purpose, George Conyne is able to challenge the conventional view of British reactions to Wilson and American policy at the Paris Peace Conference. He casts...
Kent State University Press, 2014. — 280 p. From 1865 to 1945, a number of prominent marriages united American heiresses and members of the British aristocracy. In Informal Ambassadors, author Dana Cooper examines the lives and marriages of the American-born, British-wed Lady Jennie Jerome Churchill, Mary Endicott Chamberlain, Vicereine Mary Leiter Curzon, Duchess Consuelo...
University Press of Kentucky, 2022. — 216 p. Drawing on a host of recently declassified documents from the Reagan-Thatcher years, A Diplomatic Meeting: Reagan, Thatcher, and the Art of Summitry provides an innovative framework for understanding the development and nature of the special relationship between British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and American president Ronald...
2nd ed. — Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 392 p. This volume includes historiographical surveys of American foreign relations since 1941 by some of the country's leading historians. Some of the essays offer sweeping overviews of the major trends in the field of foreign/international relations history. Others survey the literature on US relations with particular regions of...
Routledge, 2017. — 197 p. This book explores US foreign policy, specifically the history of America’s entry into the War of 1812, the First World War, the Korean War and the First Gulf War. Using a historical case study approach, it demonstrates how the Wilsonian Framework can give us a unique understanding of why the United States chose to go to war in those four conflicts....
Bristol University Press, 2022. — 192 p. The defeat of Donald Trump in November 2020 followed by the attack on the US Congress on 6th January 2021 represented a tipping point moment in the history of the American republic. Divided at home and facing a world sceptical of American claims to be the ‘indispensable nation’ in world politics, it is clear that the next few years will...
Routledge, 2012. — 232 p. More than a decade into the new millennium, the fusion of corporate and state power is the essential defining feature of US foreign policy. This edited volume critically examines the relationship between corporations and the US state in the development of foreign policies related to globalization. Drawing together a wide range of contributors, this...
Berghahn Books, 2015. — 250 p. John Quincy Adams warned Americans not to search abroad for monsters to destroy, yet such figures have frequently habituated the discourses of U.S. foreign policy. This collection of essays focuses on counter-identities in American consciousness to explain how foreign policies and the discourse surrounding them develop. Whether it is the seemingly...
Peter Lang, 2020. — 82 p. This book offers a serious investigation of one of the most controversial contemporary American Studies issues: President Donald Trump's foreign policy. Actually, an ambiguous, inconsistent uncertainty would best describe President Trump's approach to foreign affairs. This book investigates Trump's foreign policy agenda, style, principles, priorities,...
HarperCollins, 2007. — 752 p.
Starred Review. Bestselling author Dallek (An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy) delivers what will quickly become recognized as a classic of modern history: the definitive analysis of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger's complex, often troubled partnership in running American foreign policy from January 1969 through August 1974. Dallek has had...
Oxford University Press, 1995. — 657 p. Since the original publication of this classic book in 1979, Roosevelt's foreign policy has come under attack on three main points: Was Roosevelt responsible for the confrontation with Japan that led to the attack at Pearl Harbor? Did Roosevelt "give away" Eastern Europe to Stalin and the U.S.S.R. at Yalta? And, most significantly, did...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 224 p. What explains the United States' persistent use of torture over the past hundred-plus years? Not only is torture incompatible with liberal values; it is also risky and frequently ineffective as an interrogation method. In American Torture from the Philippines to Iraq, William L. d'Ambruoso argues that the norm against torture has two...
Georgetown University Press, 2020. — 298 p. Since the Revolutionary War, the United States has entered into dozens of alliances with international powers to protect its assets and advance its security interests. America's Entangling Alliances offers a corrective to long-held assumptions about US foreign policy and is relevant to current public and academic debates about the...
Brill Academic, 2022. — 410 p. — (Studies in Critical Social Sciences 212). Sanctions as War is the first critical analysis of economic sanctions from a global perspective. Featuring case studies from 11 sanctioned countries and theoretical essays, it will be of immediate interest to those interested in understanding how sanctions became the common sense of American foreign policy.
University of Massachusetts Press, 2003. — 344 p. This provocative book begins with a question about the Vietnam War. How is it, asks Robert D. Dean, that American policymakers—men who prided themselves on "hardheaded pragmatism" and shunned "fuzzy idealism"—could have committed the nation to such a ruinous, costly, and protracted war? The answer, he argues, lies not simply in...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 296 p. American Journalism and International Relations argues that the American press' disengagement from world affairs has critical repercussions for American foreign policy. Giovanna Dell'Orto shows that discourses created, circulated and maintained through the media mold opinions about the world and shape foreign policy parameters. This...
Columbia University Press, 2020. — 208 p. As the Indo-Pacific emerges as the world's most strategically consequential region and competition with China intensifies, the United States must adapt its approach if it seeks to preserve its power and sustain regional stability and prosperity. Yet as China grows more powerful and aggressive and the United States appears increasingly...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2020. — 1175 p. — (Wiley Blackwell Companions To American History). Covers the entire range of the history of U.S. foreign relations from the colonial period to the beginning of the 21st century. A Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations is an authoritative guide to past and present scholarship on the history of American diplomacy and foreign relations from its...
Algora Publishing, 2013. — 188 p. This book traces the role of Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury to President Roosevelt, in the planning for the postwar world, with close attention to the discussions leading up to the Second Quebec Conference where Winston Churchill's acceptance of the plan was obtained. It details the unspeakable consequences of the policies...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2000. — 552 p. Between 1939-1941, from the time that Germany invaded Poland until Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Americans engaged in a debate as intense as any in U.S. history. In Storm on the Horizon, prominent historian Justus D. Doenecke analyzes the personalities, leading action groups, and major congressional debates surrounding the...
Praeger, 1996. — 248 p. Focusing primarily on politics and foreign policy, America at War Since 1945 analyzes America's involvement in three wars since the end of World War II: Korea, Vietnam, and the Gulf War. The main questions asked are: How did the U.S. become involved in these wars? How were the wars conducted? And how did the U.S. get out of these wars? In Korea and...
Haymarket Books, 2023. — 180 p. From 1932 until his death in 1990, Hal Draper was a prolific Marxist writer and socialist organizer who successfully combined rigorous research and passionate outrage to assess his political era. In this still-indispensable collection of essays written in the 1950s and 60s, Draper grapples with the role of the United States in the world,...
Manchester University Press, 2017. — 218 p. 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 collection is organised chronologically and looks at the work of intellectuals who have...
Princeton University Press, 2010. — 375 p. Hard Line traces the history of Republican Party foreign policy since World War II by focusing on the conservative leaders who shaped it. Colin Dueck closely examines the political careers and foreign-policy legacies of Robert Taft, Dwight Eisenhower, Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush,...
Routledge, 2009. — 228 p. This volume is a detailed account of President Clinton's foreign policy during 1992-2000, covering the main substantive issues of his administration, including Iraq, Bosnia and Kosovo. The book emphasizes Clinton's adaptation of the elder Bush's 'New World Order' outlook and his relationship to the younger Bush's 'Americanistic' foreign policy. In...
Routledge, 2009. — 228 p. This volume is a detailed account of President Clinton's foreign policy during 1992-2000, covering the main substantive issues of his administration, including Iraq, Bosnia and Kosovo. The book emphasizes Clinton's adaptation of the elder Bush's 'New World Order' outlook and his relationship to the younger Bush's 'Americanistic' foreign policy. In...
Oxford University Press, 1986. — 380 p. A major reassessment of the evolution of the Anglo-American foreign and military allied relationship in the crucial post-war period, based on a fresh comparison of British and American primary sources.
Lexington Books, 2019. — 197 p. The United States has led the world in almost every way since World War I. In 1941, Life magazine publisher Henry Luce dubbed his country’s preponderant power “the American Century.” His editorial was a statement of fact but also an aspiration for countrymen to unite in promotion of a world order friendly to American interests. Faith and Foreign...
Independent Institute, 2008. — 272 p. Delving into the concept of the United States as an empire, this investigation examines U.S. interventions around the world—from the Spanish-American War to the invasion of Iraq—demonstrating how they not only contradict the principles of both liberals and conservatives but also make a mockery of the Founding Fathers' vision for a free...
Scarecrow Press, 2009. — 345 p. The Historical A-Z Dictionary of Anglo-American Relations surveys Anglo-American relations from 1607 to the present and covers key events, individuals, and issues that have played a part in its history. With an emphasis on the political and economic relationship between Britain and the United States, but also featuring the cultural links between the...
Minneapolis : Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2010. — 382 p. In The Contours of America's Cold War, Matthew Farish explores new ways of conceptualizing space as part of post-World War II American militarism. He demonstrates how the social sciences were militarized in the early Cold War period, producing spatial knowledge that was of immediate use to the state as it sought to expand...
Princeton University Press, 2000. — 328 p. Franklin Roosevelt's intentions during the three years between Munich and Pearl Harbor have been a source of controversy among historians for decades. Barbara Farnham offers both a theory of how the domestic political context affects foreign policy decisions in general and a fresh interpretation of FDR's post-Munich policies based on...
Academica Press, 2021. — 210 p. Exiled Emissary is a biography of the colorful life of George H. Earle, III – a Main Line Philadelphia millionaire, war hero awarded the Navy Cross, Pennsylvania governor, Ambassador to Austria and Bulgaria, friend and supporter of Franklin Roosevelt, humanitarian, playboy, and spy. Rich in Casablanca-style espionage and intrigue, Farrell’s...
Palgrave Pivot, 2019. — 148 p. This pivot sheds light on U.S. foreign policy objectives by examining diplomatic cables produced by the U.S. Embassy and Consulates in Australia, some which have been officially declassified over the past 30 years and others which were made public by the anti-secrecy group, WikiLeaks. Providing an original analysis of the cables, this book...
Columbia University Press, 2018. — 280 p. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States was left as the world's sole superpower, which was the dawn of an international order known as unipolarity. The ramifications of imbalanced power extend around the globe--including the country at the center. What has the sudden realization that it stands alone atop the...
University of Hawaii Press, 1997. — 357 p. The development of the Thai-American alliance from 1947 to 1958 dramatically transformed both countries' involvement in Southeast Asia. Bounded by two important political events in Thailand, an army coup in 1947 and the military's assumption of complete control of government in 1958, the period witnessed both the entrenchment of...
Columbia University Press, 2022. — 320 p. In the decades following World War II, American liberals had a vision for the world. Their ambitions would not stop at the water’s edge: progressive internationalism, they believed, could help peoples everywhere achieve democracy, prosperity, and freedom. Chastened in part by the failures of these grand aspirations, in recent years...
University Press of Kentucky, 2019. — 211 p. Did President Reagan's hawkish policies destroy the Soviet Union and enable the United States to win the Cold War? Many Americans believe this to be the case. In this view -- known as "triumphalism" -- Reagan's denunciations of the "evil empire" and his military buildup compelled Moscow to admit defeat. The president's triumph...
Amsterdam University Press, 2022. — 314 p. The contributions assembled in this volume present cutting-edge research that examines the network of Indo-American interconnections over a wider time frame. The case studies stretch into the American republic’s early decades, hinting at a longer history of mutual influence and exchange, beyond the registers of the American century’ of...
Liveright Publishing, 2016. — 384 p. A major new interpretation recasts U.S. history between revolution and civil war, exposing a dramatic reversal in sympathy toward Latin American revolutions. In the early nineteenth century, the United States turned its idealistic gaze southward, imagining a legacy of revolution and republicanism it hoped would dominate the American...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 272 p. Taking American mobilization in WWII as its departure point, this book offers a concise but comprehensive introduction to the history of militarization in the United States since 1940. Exploring the ways in which war and the preparation for war have shaped and affected the United States during 'The American Century', Fitzgerald demonstrates...
Scarecrow Press, 2010. — 505 p. The period from the outset of World War I to the end of World War II was among the most significant in the history of the United States. Twice it was drawn into "foreign entanglements"— wars it initially thought were no concern of its own and of which it tried to steer clear—only to realize that it could not stand aside. With each one, it geared up...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2014. — 288 p. This Historical Dictionary of U.S. Diplomacy during the Cold War offers readers a comprehensive, accessible survey of the principal actors and events involved in the making of United States foreign policy during a crucial period in the nation's history. The Cold War saw the United States acquire superpower status, and to be...
Routledge, 2006. — 359 p. In this volume, several leading foreign policy and international relations experts consider the long term prospects and implications of US foreign policy as it has been shaped and practiced during the presidency of George W. Bush. The essays in this collection - based on the research of well-respected scholars such as Ole Holsti, Loch Johnson, John...
University of North Carolina Press, 2017. — 236 p. In 1965, fed up with President Lyndon Johnson's refusal to make serious diplomatic efforts to end the Vietnam War, a group of female American peace activists decided to take matters into their own hands by meeting with Vietnamese women to discuss how to end U.S. intervention. While other attempts at women's international...
New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. — 561 p. Preface: Kennedy’s Wars. Dramatis Personae. The Cold War and How to Fight It . Liberal Anticommunism. Beyond Massive Retaliation. The Third World Alternative. Policies and People. Berlin and Nuclear Strategy . The New Strategy. To Vienna and Back. The Berlin Anomaly. A Contest of Resolve. The Wall. Tests and Tension....
Osprey Publishing Ltd. , 2006. — 95 p. — (Osprey Essential Histories). — ISBN 1-84603-030-7. The wars against the Barbary pirates not only signaled the determination of the United States to throw off its tributary status, liberate its citizens from slavery in North Africa, and reassert its right to trade freely upon the seas: they enabled America to regain its sense of national...
Princeton University Press, 2000. — 381 p. War--or the threat of war--usually strengthens states as governments tax, draft soldiers, exert control over industrial production, and dampen internal dissent in order to build military might. The United States, however, was founded on the suspicion of state power, a suspicion that continued to gird its institutional architecture and...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 372 p. 'Anti-Americanism' is an unusual expression; although stereotypes and hostility exist toward every nation, we do not hear of 'anti-Italianism' or 'anti-Brazilianism'. Only Americans have elevated such sentiment to the level of a world view, an explanatory factor so significant as to merit a name - an 'ism' - usually reserved for...
Routledge, 2020. — 248 p. In this book Gordon Friedrichs offers a pioneering insight into the implications of domestic polarization for U.S. foreign policymaking and the exercise of America’s international leadership role. Through a mixed-method design and a rich dataset consisting of polarization data, congressional debates and letters, as well as co-sponsorship coalitions,...
Routledge, 2020. — 248 p. In this book Gordon Friedrichs offers a pioneering insight into the implications of domestic polarization for U.S. foreign policymaking and the exercise of America’s international leadership role. Through a mixed-method design and a rich dataset consisting of polarization data, congressional debates and letters, as well as co-sponsorship coalitions,...
University Press of Kentucky, 2019. — 256 p. The Civil War marked a significant turning point in American history―not only for the United States itself but also for its relations with foreign powers both during and after the conflict. The friendship and foreign policy partnership between President Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of State William Henry Seward shaped those US...
Princeton University Press, 2012. — 286 p. Histories investigating U.S. immigration have often portrayed America as a domestic melting pot, merging together those who arrive on its shores. Yet this is not a truly accurate depiction of the nation's complex connections to immigration. Offering a brand-new global history of the subject, Foreign Relations takes a comprehensive look...
The Penguin Press, 2011. — 615 p. The biography of US one of the most profound, unique, controverse and deep diplomat, foreign policy creator, "The Architector of containment" George Kennan.
Oxford University Press, Inc., 2005. — 503 p. Abbreviations, Prologue: Containment Before Kennan George F. Kennan and the Strategy of Containment Implementing Containment NSC-68 and the Korean War Eisenhower, Dulles, and the New Look Implementing the New Look Kennedy, Johnson, and Flexible Response Implementing Flexible Response: Vietnam as a Test Case Nixon, Kissinger, and...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Press, 1976. — 317 p. The Paradox of American Imperialism. America Goes Abroad: 1898-1908. Progressivism, War, and Revolution: 1909-1919 Splendid Isolation American Style: 1919-1931 Capitalism in Crisis: 1931-1941 From Pearl Harbor to Panmunjon: 1941-1951 The Collective Security Empire: 1951-1961 America and the World Revolution: 1961-1976
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 259 p. This book takes a new approach to answering the question of how NATO survived after the Cold War by examining its complex relationship with the United States. A closer look at major NATO engagements in the post-Cold War era, including in the Balkans, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, reveals how the US helped comprehensively reshape the alliance....
Routledge, 2020. — 197 p. This book investigates the end of the Cold War in Africa and its impact on post-Cold War US foreign policy in the continent. The fall of the Berlin Wall is widely considered the end of the Cold War; however, it documents just one of the many "ends", since the Cold War was a global conflict. This book looks at one of the most neglected extra-European...
Routledge, 2021. — 384 p. First published in 1998. Explores the concept of "race" - The term "race," which originally denoted genealogical or class identity, has in the comparatively brief span of 300 years taken on an entirely new meaning. In the wake of the Enlightenment it came to be applied to social groups. This ideological transformation coupled with a dogmatic insistence...
Routledge, 2014. — 407 p. First published in 1998. Explores the concept of "race" The term "race," which originally denoted genealogical or class identity, has in the comparatively brief span of 300 years taken on an entirely new meaning. In the wake of the Enlightenment it came to be applied to social groups. This ideological transformation coupled with a dogmatic insistence...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2020. — 464 p. From the former secretary of defense and author of the acclaimed number one best-selling memoir, Duty, a candid, sweeping examination of power, and how it has been exercised, for good and bad, by American presidents in the post-Cold War world. Since the end of the Cold War, the global perception of the United States has...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. — 196 p. Between 1957-1961, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Harold Macmillan restored the 'Special Relationship' between the United States and Great Britain after the Suez Crisis of 1956 threatened to divide these longtime allies. Their diplomatic partnership, designed to keep the peace during one of the most difficult periods of the Cold War, was based on...
Harper Collins, 2009. — 352 p. Power Rules is the provocative account of how to think about and use America’s power in the world, from Pulitzer Prize winner Leslie H. Gelb, one of the nation’s leading foreign policy minds and practitioners. Starred Review. Gelb, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for the New York Times, sets out guidelines for stewarding American power through...
Routledge, 2020. — 368 p. With the rise of President Trump, many are coming to question where the United States (U.S.) is headed and, whether we might witness an imperial decline under Trump. Social scientists largely recognize the contemporary hegemonic position of the U.S. at the global level, but questions persist concerning the future of the U.S. Empire. With the Trump...
Stanford University Press, 1976. — 344 p. The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative passed in 1948 for foreign aid to Western Europe. The United States transferred over $12 billion (equivalent to $130 billion in 2019) in economic recovery programs to Western European economies after the end of World War II. Replacing an earlier...
Cato Institute Press, 2019. — 239 p. As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump broke not only from the Republican Party but also from the bipartisan consensus on the direction of recent U.S. foreign policy. Calling the Iraq war a terrible mistake and lamenting America's nation building expeditions, Trump evinced little interest in maintaining the traditional form of American...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 400 p. America's Road to Empire surveys and analyses United States' foreign relations from the country’s independence in 1776 until its entry into World War One in 1917, using primary source materials and case studies. The book covers key themes including: - the role that notions of "white superiority" played in US foreign policy - the search for...
Berghahn Books, 1999. — 257 p. The growing internationalization of the world poses a fundamental question, i.e., through what mechanisms does culture diffuse across political boundaries and what is the role of politics in shaping this diffusion? This volume offers some answers through the case study of the relationship between two quite different states during the Cold War era...
University Press of Kentucky, 2020. — 208 p. In August 1974, while Richard Nixon resigned and Gerald Ford began a prolonged battle with Congress over executive power, a crisis was occurring in Cyprus. Desperate to shore up its declining popularity with a foreign policy triumph, the military government of Greece tried to overthrow the government of the independent island nation....
City Lights Publishers, 2013. — 434 p. Upon leaving the White House in 1961, President Eisenhower famously warned Americans about the dangers of a "military industrial complex," and was clearly worried about the destabilizing effects of a national economy based on open-ended military spending. Today, as the global economic crisis and a growing national debt beg for a change of...
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1250097177, 1627794492 | 288 pages |
A new account of America's most controversial diplomat that moves beyond praise or condemnation to reveal Kissinger as the architect of America's current imperial stance
In his fascinating new book, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin argues that to understand the crisis of contemporary America―its never-ending wars abroad...
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1250097177, 1627794492 | 288 pages | ASIN: B0134BH94Q | M4B@64 kbps | 7 hrs 34 mins | Narrator: Brian O'Neill |
A new account of America's most controversial diplomat that moves beyond praise or condemnation to reveal Kissinger as the architect of America's current imperial stance
In his fascinating new book, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin argues that...
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1250097177, 1627794492 | 288 pages | ASIN: B0134BH94Q | M4B@64 kbps | 7 hrs 34 mins | Narrator: Brian O'Neill |
A new account of America's most controversial diplomat that moves beyond praise or condemnation to reveal Kissinger as the architect of America's current imperial stance
In his fascinating new book, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin argues that to...
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1250097177, 1627794492 | 288 pages | ASIN: B0134BH94Q | M4B@64 kbps | 7 hrs 34 mins | Narrator: Brian O'Neill |
A new account of America's most controversial diplomat that moves beyond praise or condemnation to reveal Kissinger as the architect of America's current imperial stance
In his fascinating new book, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin argues that to...
Routledge, 2016. — 208 p. As Africa’s strategic importance has increased over the past decade and a half, United States security cooperation with the continent has expanded. The most visible dimension of this increased engagement was the establishment of the U.S. Military Command for Africa (AFRICOM). Some critics are skeptical of AFRICOM’s purpose and see the militarization of...
University of Massachusetts Press, 2010. — 255 p. In 1961, as President John F. Kennedy proclaimed the beginning of a “Decade of Development,” the United States embarked on its first coherent “Africa” policy. Guided by the precepts of modernization theory, American policymakers, diplomats, academics, and Peace Corps volunteers were dispatched to promote economic growth and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 254 p. This book discusses “culture” and the origins of the Anglo-American special relationship (the AASR). The bitter dispute between ethnic groups in the US from 1914–1917—a period of time characterized as the “culture wars”—laid the groundwork both for US intervention in the European balance of power in 1917 and for the creation of what would...
Routledge, 2021. — 230 p. This book argues that while the US president makes foreign policy decisions based largely on political pressures, it is concentrated interests that shape the incentive structures in which he and other top officials operate. The author identifies three groups most likely to be influential: government contractors, the national security bureaucracy, and...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 576 p. — ISBN10: 0195172213, ISBN13: 978-0195172218. Henry Kissinger dominated American foreign relations like no other figure in recent history. He negotiated an end to American involvement in the Vietnam War, opened relations with Communist China, and orchestrated détente with the Soviet Union. Yet he is also the man behind the secret bombing...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. — 367 p. World War I constituted a milestone in the development of the United States as a world power. As the European powers exhausted themselves during the conflict, the U.S. government deployed its growing economic leverage, its military might, and its diplomacy to shape the outcome of the war and to influence the future of...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. — 384 p. From the era of the Spanish American war onward, the United States found itself increasingly involved in the affairs of countries beyond North America. The New World Power offers an interpretive framework for understanding U.S. foreign policy during the first two decades of America's emergence as a world power. Robert E. Hannigan...
Lexington Books, 2013. — 248 p. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, transformed the way in which Americans and their leaders viewed the world. The tragic events of that day helped give rise to a foreign policy strategy commonly referred to as the “Bush Doctrine.” At the heart of this doctrine lie a series of claims about the need to encourage liberal democracy as the...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 279 p. Covering the period from 1936 to 1953, Empire of Ideas reveals how and why image first became a component of foreign policy, prompting policymakers to embrace such techniques as propaganda, educational exchanges, cultural exhibits, overseas libraries, and domestic public relations. Drawing upon exhaustive research in official government...
Twelfth Edition. — Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2020. — 440 p. Glenn Hastedt’s clear and succinct introduction to the field provides a compelling way to prepare students to think about America's changing role in the world and to develop the critical thinking skills they need to participate in the debate about the conduct and content of American foreign policy. He does so...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2016. — 421 p. This book, first published in 1945, is a fascinating personal account of the late U.S. Ambassador to Spain Carlton J. H. Hayes’ diplomatic mission in Spain during World War II, from May 1942 to January 1945. Whilst briefly touching on Spain’s internal affairs, the principal focus is firmly on American policy toward Spain during those...
University of Arizona Press, 1971. — 61 p. The Kashmir dispute has been one of the most important factors in determining the balance of power in South Asia after World War II. The American views on Kashmir have been shaped by a variety of regional interests pursued by the US in South Asia. Changing circumstances have given birth to new US perspectives, which have often been at...
Cornell University Press, 2018. — 316 p. George F. Kennan is well known for articulating the strategic concept of containment, which would be the centerpiece of what became the Truman Doctrine. During his influential Cold War career he was the preeminent American expert on the Soviet Union. In Mr. X and the Pacific, Paul J. Heer explores Kennan's equally important impact on...
Lexington Books, 2018. — 243 p. On September 26, 1953, the Eisenhower administration signed three executive agreements with General Franco's regime, which allowed the United States to install military bases in Spain in exchange for economic and military aid. The deal clearly favored US Cold War interests, and critics soon denounced that by signing the Pact of Madrid America had...
Manchester University Press, 2020. — 314 p. This book examines how intangible aspects of international relations - including identity, memory, representation, and symbolic perception - have helped to shape the development and contribute to the endurance of the Anglo-American special relationship. Challenging traditional interpretations of US-UK relations and breaking new ground...
University Press of Kansas, 2009. — 478 p. Most overviews of American history depict an isolationist country finally dragged kicking and screaming onto the world stage by the attack on Pearl Harbor. David Hendrickson shows that Americans instead conducted often-raucous debates over international relations in the long epoch customarily seen as isolationist—debates that form the...
University Press of Kentucky, 2016. — 192 p. During President Barack Obama's first term in office, the United States expanded its military presence in Afghanistan and increased drone missile strikes across Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. The administration also deployed the military to combat piracy in the Indian Ocean, engaged in a sustained bombing operation in Libya, and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 230 p. America and Rogue States narrates and analyzes the US relationship with the main nuclear-threatening, terrorist-sponsoring outcast states during the last two decades. The Rogue Phenomenon. Iraq: Quintessential Rogue State. Iran: Ace of the Axis of Evil. North Korea: Blackmailing Rogue. Lesser Rogues and Troublesome States.
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 1054 p. — (Oxford History of the United States). The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation in print. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize-winners, a New York Times bestseller, and winners of prestigious Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. From Colony to Superpower is the only thematic volume...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 1054 p. — (Oxford History of the United States). The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation in print. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize-winners, a New York Times bestseller, and winners of prestigious Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. From Colony to Superpower is the only thematic volume...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 779 p. — (Oxford History of the United States). In his last years as president of the United States, an embattled George Washington yearned for a time when his nation would have "the strength of a Giant and there will be none who can make us afraid." At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States seemed poised to achieve a position of...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 472 p. — (Oxford History of the United States). Praised in the New York Times Book Review for its "Herculean power of synthesis," George C. Herring's 2008 From Colony to Superpower has won wide acclaim from critics and readers alike. Years of Peril and Ambition: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1776-1921 is the first volume of a new split paperback...
Routledge, 2015. — 500 p. American Foreign Relations: A New Diplomatic History is a compelling narrative history of American foreign policy from the early settlement of North America to the present. In addition to economic and strategic motives, Walter L. Hixson integrates key cultural factors―including race, gender, and religion―into the story of American foreign policy. He...
Routledge, 2015. — 500 p. Righteous Empire: A History of American Foreign Policy is a compelling narrative detailed history of American foreign policy from the early settlement of North America to the present. In addition to economic and strategic motives, Walter L. Hixson integrates key cultural factors―including race, gender, and religion―into the story of American foreign...
Yale University Press, 2008. — 392 p. A provocative new view of the history of U.S. foreign policy, how it reflects our national identity, and why it so regularly involves the use of military force. In this major reconceptualization of the history of U.S. foreign policy, Walter Hixson engages with the entire sweep of that history, from its Puritan beginnings to the twenty-first...
RAND Corporation, 2017. — 310 p. This report is the last of a six-volume series in which RAND explores the elements of a national strategy for the conduct of U.S. foreign policy. It analyzes U.S. strengths and weaknesses, and suggests adaptations for this new era of turbulence and uncertainty. The report offers three alternative strategic concepts and evaluates their underlying...
Second Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 382 p. Originally published in 1991, Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations has become an indispensable volume for teachers and students in international history and political science, and general readers seeking an introduction to American diplomatic history. This collection of essays highlights the conceptual...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 244 p. This book explores the growing importance of subnational diplomacy by examining the state of California. As the fifth largest economy in the world, California’s tribes, counties, cities and the state itself are changing the shape of diplomatic theory and practice and defining what it means to be a ‘global’ state. As both a theoretical text and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 360 p. Covering the period 1938 to 2008, The Embassy in Grosvenor Square explores the role of the embassy in the Anglo-American 'special relationship', both in terms of transatlantic affairs and issues of international relations.
Potomac Books, 2006. — 288 p. Theodore Roosevelt and World Order presents a new understanding of TR's political philosophy while shedding light on some of today's most vexing foreign policy dilemmas. Most know that Roosevelt served as New York police commissioner during the 1890s, warring on crime while sponsoring reforms that reflected his good-government convictions. Later...
Routledge, 2006. — 408 p. Ole Holsti, one of the deans of US foreign policy analysis, examines the complex factors involved in the policy decision-making process including the beliefs and cognitive processes of foreign policy leaders and the influence public opinion has on foreign policy. The essays, in addition to being both theoretically and empirically rich, are historical...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 262 p. This book is an original study of the contemporary debate over U.S. foreign policy between the president, members of Congress, and political parties. Specifically, it examines how factions at the ideological extremes within parties such as the Tea Party, the Freedom Caucus, and Progressive Democrats can play significant roles in shaping U.S....
Routledge, 2012. — 480 p. No nation has maintained such an immense stature in world politics as the United States has since the Cold War’s end. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, prompting the global war on terrorism and the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, along with American economic and "soft power" primacy, there has been increased interest in and scrutiny of American...
Routledge, 2012. — 480 p. No nation has maintained such an immense stature in world politics as the United States has since the Cold War’s end. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, prompting the global war on terrorism and the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, along with American economic and "soft power" primacy, there has been increased interest in and scrutiny of American...
CQ Press, 2009. — 431 p. As distinctive as it has been, the Bush administration’s foreign policy still fits within Hook and Spanier’s coherent theme of American exceptionalism. Chances are that the Obama administration, no matter how different it may be, will also share this orientation in important ways, thereby giving your students the historical context they need to...
CQ Press, 2016. — 520 p. The United States holds a paradoxical role: it is the world's lone super power, yet ironically, is limited by the same factors that facilitated its primacy. A sense of national exceptionalism, a diffusion of governmental powers, and an open civil society helped to create a global behemoth, though at times also restrict the government's freedom of...
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Cornell University Press, 2021. — 411 p. In The Reagan Moment, the ideas, events, strategies, trends, and movements that shaped the 1980s are revealed to have had lasting effects on international relations: The United States went from a creditor to a debtor nation; democracy crested in East Asia and returned to Latin America; the People's Republic of China moved to privatize,...
Edinburgh University Press, 2005. — 188 p. This book provides the first comprehensive description and critique of the six most important historical interpretations of US Cold War foreign policy: Traditionalism, Revisionism, Post-Revisionism, Corporatism, World Systems Theory, and Post-Structuralism.The author uses the 'levels of analysis' approach to demonstrate how each of...
University Press of Kentucky, 2014. — 208 p. The figure of John Adams looms large in American foreign relations of the Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary years. James H. Hutson captures this elusive personality of this remarkable figure, highlighting the triumphs and the despairs that Adams experienced as he sought―at times, he felt, single-handedly―to establish the new...
Princeton University Press, 2008. — 165 p. Was George W. Bush the true heir of Woodrow Wilson, the architect of liberal internationalism? Was the Iraq War a result of liberal ideas about America's right to promote democracy abroad? In this timely book, four distinguished scholars of American foreign policy discuss the relationship between the ideals of Woodrow Wilson and those...
Yale University Press, 2020. — 272 p. Is America fated to decline as a great power? Can it recover? With absorbing insight and fresh perspective, foreign policy expert Andrew Imbrie provides a road map for bolstering American leadership in an era of turbulence abroad and deepening polarization at home. This is a book about choices: the tough policy trade-offs that political...
Rowman and Littlefield, 1998. — 221 p. John Foster Dulles was one of the most influential and controversial figures in the history of twentieth-century U.S. foreign relations. Active in the field for decades, Dulles reflected and was a reflection of the tension that pervaded U.S. international conduct from its evolution as a global power in the early twentieth century through...
Routledge, 2016. — 290 p. This book examines US foreign policy and global standing in the 21st Century. The United States is the most powerful actor in world politics today. Against this backdrop, the present volume examines how the foreign policies pursued by Presidents’ George W. Bush and Barack Obama have affected elite and public perceptions of the United States. By...
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. — 1829. — ISBN-13 978-110-1947548 More than twenty years have elapsed since the United States last brokered a peace agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians. In that time, three presidents have tried and failed. Martin Indyk—a former United States ambassador to Israel and special envoy for the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations in 2013—has...
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. — 724. — ISBN-13 978-110-1947548 More than twenty years have elapsed since the United States last brokered a peace agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians. In that time, three presidents have tried and failed. Martin Indyk—a former United States ambassador to Israel and special envoy for the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations in 2013—has...
University Press of Kentucky, 2002. — 195 p. In this provocative interpretation of New Deal diplomacy, Howard Jablon challenges the view that the State Department was wiser and more expert at international maneuver than was President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the early years of his presidency. These were years of growing world tension, with the preliminary shots of World War II...
Routledge, 2017. — 239 p. Examining American foreign policy towards the Horn of Africa between 1945 and 1991, this book uses Ethiopia and Somalia as case studies to offer an evaluation of the decision-making process during the Cold War, and consider the impact that these decisions had upon subsequent developments both within the Horn of Africa and in the wider international...
Cornell University Press, 2012. — 327 p. During the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations, Laos was positioned to become a major front in the Cold War. Yet American policymakers ultimately chose to resist communism in neighboring South Vietnam instead. Two generations of historians have explained this decision by citing logistical considerations. Laos's landlocked, mountainous...
Rutgers University Press, 1995. — 294 p. There are more than fifty women in the United States Congress and nearly one-fourth of foreign service posts are held by women. Nevertheless, the United States has yet to entrust a senior foreign policy job, outside of the United Nations, to a woman. Beneath these statistics lurk central myths that Jeffreys-Jones cogently identifies and...
Lexington Books, 2011. — 232 p. FDR's Republicans illuminates the debate over foreign policy that took place in the United States prior to World War II. Robert E. Jenner approaches this issue from the perspective of Republican members of the House and Senate, who eventually came to support the interventionist position of a Democratic president. Unlike other diplomatic histories...
Bristol University Press, 2021. — 288 p. Paying close attention to its domestic roots, this textbook provides a valuable introduction to the construction and application of US foreign policy in the modern era. Accessibly written and including helpful illustrative material, a glossary and guide to further reading, it is organised around four broad themes: • the ideologies of US...
Praeger, 2011. — 282 p. How should the United States deal with the jihadist challenge and other religious imperatives that permeate today's geopolitical landscape? Religion, Terror, and Error: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Challenge of Spiritual Engagement argues that what's required is a longer-term strategy of cultural engagement, backed by a deeper understanding of how others...
University Press of Kentucky, 2017. — 369 p. While domestic issues loom large in voters' minds during American presidential elections, matters of foreign policy have consistently shaped candidates and their campaigns. From the start of World War II through the collapse of the Soviet Union, presidential hopefuls needed to be perceived as credible global leaders in order to win...
Brookings Institution Press, 2020. — 144 p. How the United States helped restore a Europe battered by World War II and created the foundation for the postwar international order. Seventy years ago, in the wake of World War II, the United States did something almost unprecedented in world history: It launched and paid for an economic aid plan to restore a continent reeling from...
University of North Carolina Press, 2010. — 416 p. In this examination of Union and Confederate foreign relations during the Civil War from both European and American perspectives, Howard Jones demonstrates that the consequences of the conflict between North and South reached far beyond American soil.
University of California Press, 2022. — 368 p. This history reveals how radical threats to the United States empire became seditious threats to national security and exposes the antiradical and colonial origins of anti-Asian racism. Menace to Empire transforms familiar themes in American history. This profoundly ambitious history of race and empire traces both the colonial...
University Press of Kentucky, 2018. — 280 p. From 1964 to 1980, the United States was buffeted by a variety of international crises, including the nation's defeat in Vietnam, the growing aggression of the Soviet Union, and Washington's inability to free the fifty two American hostages held by Islamic extremists in Iran. Through this period and in the decades that followed,...
Encounter Books, 2000. — 401 p. This original collection of essays offers hope to those who believe that the cause of world peace requires a new American foreign policy and repairing our depleted military. The twelve contributors to this book show why America must take another look at our possible adversaries and real strategic partners. Present Dangers offers practical...
Knopf, 2023. — 688 p. At the dawn of the twentieth century, the United States was one of the world’s richest, most populous, most technologically advanced nations. It was also a nation divided along numerous fault lines, with conflicting aspirations and concerns pulling it in different directions. And it was a nation unsure about the role it wanted to play in the world, if any....
Lexington Books, 2018. — 314 p. This book examines President Reagan's and his administration's efforts to mobilize public and congressional support for seven of the president's controversial foreign policy initiatives. Each chapter deals with a distinct foreign policy issue, but they each is related in one way or another to alleged threats to U.S. national security interests by...
University Press of Kentucky, 2017. — 244 p. Harold Stassen (1907--2001) garnered accolades as the thirty-one-year-old "boy wonder" governor of Minnesota and quickly assumed a national role as aide to Admiral William Halsey Jr. during World War II. When Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected in 1952, Stassen was named director of the Mutual Security Administration and then became the...
Praeger, 1999. — 280 p. The fiftieth anniversary of the long entanglement between the United States and NATO is an appropriate occasion to reflect. One of the few NATO studies to concentrate on the history of the alliance, particularly the relationship between its senior partner and its European allies, this study examines critical issues in depth, to uncover the ability of the...
New York: The Free Press, 1975. — 264 p. Isolation or Interdependence opens the debate concerning the major choices facing the world with respect to resources, trade, money, and alliance policies. Led by Professor Morton A. Kaplan of The University of Chicago, a team of distinguished scientists explore these issues from the perspectives of economics, resources, technology,...
Penguin, 2018. — 280 p. A bracing assessment of U.S. foreign policy and world disorder over the past two decades, anchored by a major new Pentagon-commissioned essay about changing power dynamics among China, Eurasia, and America-from the renowned geopolitical analyst and bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography and The Coming Anarchy. In the late thirteenth century,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 235 p. This book seeks to comprehensively analyze and document U.S. foreign policy toward a strategic Cold War ally that posed a stark challenge to the traditionally-stated U.S. preference for democracy and political freedom. It details the complex ways in which the U.S. reacted to that challenge and went about crafting policies of longer-term...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. — 295 р. Combining rigorous academic scholarship with the experience of a senior Pentagon policymaker, Mara E. Karlin explores the key national security issue of our time: how to effectively build partner militaries. Given the complex and complicated global security environment, declining U.S. defense budgets, and an increasingly...
Routledge, 2021. — 230 p. This book examines the role of the United States in Greek–Turkish relations and fills an important gap in alliance theory regarding the guardian’s dilemma. The strategy of a great power involves not only tackling threats from enemies, but also dealing with problems that arise between allies. Every time Greece and Turkey threatened to go to war against...
Fifth Edition. — Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2021. — 368 p. Now in a fully updated edition that goes through the Trump administration and the election and formative period of the Biden administration, this compact and accessible introduction offers a historical perspective on the evolution of U.S. foreign policy from the founding of the country to the present. Joyce P....
Praeger, 1988. — 208 p. The Truman years saw the beginnings of a dramatic shift in the Republican party's approach to foreign policy and a growing congressional commitment to bipartisanship in foreign affairs. Traditional Republican isolationism, expressed in widespread opposition to overseas political commitments such as NATO and the Marshall Plan, gave way to an...
RAND Corporation, 2001. — 277 p. Asia has in recent years been challenged by a financial crisis. While some countries have moved toward increased stability, others have struggled with churning economic or political upheaval, including territorial disputes, nuclear rivalry, rising nationalist sentiments, and increased military capabilities. This book examines future directions...
Princeton University Press, 1992. — 304 p. From World War I to Operation Desert Storm, American policymakers have repeatedly invoked the "lessons of history" as they contemplated taking their nation to war. Do these historical analogies actually shape policy, or are they primarily tools of political justification? Yuen Foong Khong argues that leaders use analogies not merely to...
Potomac Books, 2007. — 320 p. John Brady Kiesling, a twenty-year veteran of the foreign service, publicly resigned his position as political counselor of the U.S. Embassy in Athens in February 2003 to protest the Bush administration’s impending invasion of Iraq. He believed that the security, economic, and moral costs of this war, including the blackening of America’s image...
Basic Books, 2020. — 384 p. This definitive portrait of American diplomacy reveals how the concept of the West drove twentieth-century foreign policy, how it fell from favor, and why it is worth saving. Throughout the twentieth century, many Americans saw themselves as part of Western civilization, and Western ideals of liberty and self-government guided American diplomacy. But...
Henry Holt and Company, 2007. — 515 p. A fast-paced narrative history of the coups, revolutions, and invasions by which the United States has toppled fourteen foreign governments—not always to its own benefit. "Regime change" did not begin with the administration of George W. Bush, but has been an integral part of U.S. foreign policy for more than one hundred years. Starting with...
World Scientific Publishing, 2016. — 301 p. This unique collection presents a comprehensive concept of diplomacy. It regards diplomacy as an institution for communication which, as far as content is concerned, functions as a dependent variable of foreign policy. Special attention is drawn to non-interference as an indispensable instrument to fight chaos in international...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 0691001502; ISBN13: 978-0691001500 In his widely acclaimed To End All Wars, Thomas Knock provides an intriguing, often provocative narrative of Woodrow Wilson's epic quest for a new world order. The account follows Wilson's thought and diplomacy from his policy toward revolutionary Mexico, through his dramatic call...
University of Michigan Press, 2020. — 320 p. Foreign policies and diplomatic missions, combined with military action, were the driving forces behind the growth of the early United States. In an era when the Old and New Worlds were subject to British, French, and Spanish imperial ambitions, the new republic had limited diplomatic presence and minimal public credit. It was...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004. — 264 p. Kohn shows how Americans and Canadians often referred to each other as members of the same family, sharing the same blood, and drew upon the common lexicon of Anglo-Saxon rhetoric to undermine old rivalries and underscore shared interests. Though the predominance of Anglo-Saxonism proved short-lived, it left a legacy of...
Pantheon, 1988. — 332 p. The Wartime Image of the Future. European Priorities in Theory and Practice: From Africa to South Asia. Confronting Turbulent Asia. Latin America: The Nationalist Challenge. The End of Postwar Optimism. From the Korean War to the End of 1960. The Korean War: The United States Reassesses the Third World. Asia and the American System The Middle East: From...
Pantheon, 1990. — 717 p. A major work of narrative history that brings together United States diplomatic, economic, and military decisions from the last years of the Second World War to show how the stage was set for many of the postwar conflicts.
Harper and Row, 1972. — 832 p. The Reconstruction of the World Economy. American Diplomacy and Russia, 1945-1946. Great Britain and the New World Economy. Military Power and Foreign Policy, 1945-1946. The Future of Germany. The Political Economy of Western Europe, 1945-1946. The Transformation of Eastern Europe, 1945-1947. Greece and the Middle East: Tradition and Turmoil...
Texas University Press, 2001. — 192 p. The presidential election of 1952, unlike most others before and since, was dominated by foreign policy, from the bloody stalemate of Korea to the deepening menace of international communism. During the campaign, Dwight Eisenhower and his spokesmen fed the public’s imagination with their promises to liberate the peoples of Eastern Europe...
Routledge, 2020. — 364 p. The term "race," which originally denoted genealogical or class identity, has in the comparatively brief span of 300 years taken on an entirely new meaning. In the wake of the Enlightenment it came to be applied to social groups. This ideological transformation coupled with a dogmatic insistence that the groups so designated were natural, and not...
Potomac Books, 2006. — 176 p. At first glance, it may be difficult to accept that race and racism play a major role, whether conscious or subconscious, in policymaking. But leaders are products of their upbringing and era, and even some of America's best-educated presidents and secretaries of state have been slave owners, segregationists, or bigots. Some belong to America's...
Routledge, 1999. — 311 p. Following World War II, America was witness to two great struggles. The first was on the international front and involved the fight for freedom around the globe, as millions of people in Asia and Africa rose up to throw off their European colonial masters. In the decades following 1945 dozens of new nations joined the ranks of independent countries....
Warszawa: Książka i Wiedza, 1952. — 259 s. Spis rzeczy Wstęp... Rozdział pierwszy Wielka Socjalistyczna Rewolucja Październikowa i fiasko amerykańskich planów ujarzmienia Rosji... Rozdział drugi Stany Zjednoczone jako organizator i aktywny uczestnik zbrojnej interwencji przeciwko Rosji Radzieckiej... Rozdział trzeci Zaborcze plany imperializmu amerykańskiego w stosunku do Rosji...
New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. — 542 p. The United States is in the midst of a bruising debate about its role in the world. Not since the interwar era have Americans been so divided over the scope and nature of their engagement abroad. President Donald Trump’s America First approach to foreign policy certainly amplified the controversy. His isolationist,...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 542 p. — ISBN 978-0199-39302-2 The United States is in the midst of a bruising debate about its role in the world. Not since the interwar era have Americans been so divided over the scope and nature of their engagement abroad. President Donald Trump’s America First approach to foreign policy certainly amplified the controversy. His isolationist,...
Clarity Press, 2019. — 343 p. Many academics consider Obama to have been a master foreign policy strategist and shrewd practitioner of the art of realpolitik. This book demonstrates, however, that Obama in reality helped to institutionalize a permanent warfare state that resulted in gross human rights violations and contributed to America's strategic decline. His perpetuation...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 361 p. After a decade and a half of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, US policymakers are seeking to provide aid and advice to local governments' counterinsurgency campaigns rather than directly intervening with US forces. This strategy, and US counterinsurgency doctrine in general, fail to recognize that despite a shared aim of defeating an...
W.W. Norton and Company, 1983. — 368 p. Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica are five small countries, and yet no other part of the world is more important to the US. This book explains the history of US/Central American relations, explaining why these countries have remained so overpopulated, illiterate and violent; and why US government notions of...
Cambridge University Press, 1993. — 140 p. — (The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations). — ISBN 0521-38185-1. Since their first publication, the four volumes of the Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations have served as the definitive source for the topic, from the colonial period to the Cold War. This second volume of the updated edition describes the causes...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 252 p. Through an analysis of the general principles of Obama's foreign policy, Laidi shows how Obama has charted a realist course in the Middle East, in Europe, in diplomacy, and in war. This outstanding book manages to do something that few other works on Obama's foreign policy have been able to do so far: provide an original and balanced...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2001. — 288 p. The Banana Wars: United States Intervention in the Caribbean, 1898-1934 offers a sweeping panorama of America's tropical empire in the age spanned by the two Roosevelts and a detailed narrative of U.S. military intervention in the Caribbean and Mexico. In this new edition, Professor Langley provides an updated introduction,...
Yale University Press, 2021. — 432 р. A clear and comprehensive examination of transatlantic relations during the Nixon/Kissinger era. The United States has long been conflicted between promoting a united Western Europe in order to strengthen its defense of the West, and fearing that a more united Western Europe might not submit to American political and economic leadership....
University of North Carolina Press, 2000. — 304 p. Providing new insight on the intellectual and cultural dimensions of the Cold War, Michael Latham reveals how social science theory helped shape American foreign policy during the Kennedy administration. He shows how, in the midst of America's protracted struggle to contain communism in the developing world, the concept of...
Princeton University Press, 2021. — 408 p. A groundbreaking new history of how the Vietnam War thwarted U.S. liberal ambitions in the developing world and at home in the 1960s. At the start of the 1960s, John F. Kennedy and other American liberals expressed boundless optimism about the ability of the United States to promote democracy and development in Asia, Africa, the Middle...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 289 p. This political analysis exposes the fanciful logic that the United States can use nuclear weapons to vanquish nuclear adversaries or influence them when employing various coercive tactics. During the Cold War, American policymakers sought nuclear advantages to offset an alleged Soviet edge. Policymakers hoped that US nuclear capabilities...
University of Chicago Press, 2022. — 272 p. An examination of how the postwar United States twisted its ideal of “the free flow of information” into a one-sided export of values and a tool with global consequences. When the dust settled after World War II, the United States stood as the world’s unquestionably pre-eminent military and economic power. In the decades that...
Routledge, 2011. — 255 p. African-Americans' analysis of, and interest in, foreign affairs represents a rich and dynamic legacy, and this work provides a cutting edge insight into this neglected aspect of US foreign affairs. In addition to extending the parameters of US foreign policy literature to include race and ethnicity, the book documents case-specific analyses of the...
Cornell University Press, 2020. — 310 p. Cinema and the Cultural Cold War explores the ways in which postwar Asian cinema was shaped by transnational collaborations and competitions between newly independent and colonial states at the height of Cold War politics. Sangjoon Lee adopts a simultaneously global and regional approach when analyzing the region's film cultures and...
University of North Carolina Press, 2018. — 312 p. This analysis of the Kennedy administration's relationship with the press during the Laotian, Berlin, Cuban missile, and Vietnam crises of 1961-63 suggests that press coverage and Kennedy's influence on the press were far more varied than scholars have supposed. Focusing on press coverage of government officials, foreign...
Routledge, 2016. — 255 p. Democracy promotion, security and energy are the predominant themes of US policy in Central Asia after the Cold War. This book analyses how the Bush administration understood and pursued its interests in the Central Asia states, namely Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan. It discusses the shift in US interests after September...
Duke University Press, 2003. — 277 p. Emperors in the Jungle is an exposé of key episodes in the military involvement of the United States in Panama. Investigative journalism at its best, this book reveals how U.S. ideas about taming tropical jungles and people, combined with commercial and military objectives, shaped more than a century of intervention and environmental...
Yale University Press, 2020. — 216 p. This ambitious and incisive book presents a new vision for American foreign policy and international order at a time of historic upheaval. The United States global leadership crisis is not a passing shock created by the Trump presidency or COVID-19, but the product of forces that will endure for decades. Amidst political polarization,...
Springer, 2020. — 228 p. This book examines US foreign policy in the Eastern Mediterranean and the region’s key role in the practice and evolution of American exceptionalism. The political developments in the Eastern Mediterranean during the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries, gave to the US opportunities to express, in the most explicit way, its anti-colonialism,...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 365 p. In the 1970s, the United States faced challenges on a number of fronts. By nearly every measure, American power was no longer unrivalled. The task of managing America's relative decline fell to President Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, and Gerald Ford. From 1969 to 1977, Nixon, Kissinger, and Ford reoriented U.S. foreign policy from its...
Government Printing Office, 1989. — 256 p. Considers what the U.S. can do to overcome traditional American aversion to political warfare & how to be better competitors in the current political struggles that characterize international relations. Military and civilian analyses of past successes and failures present possibilities for improvement. Suggests how the U.S. can upgrade...
Oxford University Press, 1991. — 215 p. This book contains four comparative studies of U.S. foreign policy after World War II. The first deals with the way in which American historians have analyzed the origins of the Cold War and argues that moralism, presentism, exceptionalism, and provincialism have been allowed too large a role in such analyses. Another study looks at the...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 273 p. This book offers a bold re-interpretation of the prevailing narrative that US foreign policy after the Cold War was a failure. In chapters that retell and re-argue the key episodes of the post-Cold War years, Lynch argues that the Cold War cast a shadow on the presidents that came after it and that success came more from adapting to...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 397 p. Towards the end of his second term, it appears George W. Bush's foreign policy has won few admirers, with pundits and politicians eagerly and opportunistically bashing the tenets of the Bush Doctrine. This provocative account dares to counter the dogma of Bush's Beltway detractors and his ideological enemies, boldly arguing that Bush's...
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2016. — 250 p. It is no secret that the US variously pulls away from the United Nations and embraces it as a significant venue for policy initiatives. But what explains this dramatic inconsistency? What is the logic of US multilateralism? Alynna Lyon explores the puzzling waxing and waning of US support for the UN, tracing events, actions, and...
Cornell University Press, 2020. — 312 p. This book explains why the United States stopped annexing territory by focusing on annexation's domestic political and normative consequences. The Picky Eagle explains why the United States stopped annexing territory by focusing on annexation's domestic consequences, both political and normative. It describes how the U.S. rejection of...
Routledge, 2013. — 224 p. This fascinating study examines the dynamic process through which the Clinton administration developed a policy towards UN peace support operations. The author addresses the fundamental question: what factors influenced the shift in US policy towards the United Nations and its peace support operations and which factors were clearly dominant? Based on...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 195 p. This book addresses one main question: whether the United States has a cohesive foreign policy for Africa. In assessing the history of the United States and its interactions with the continent, particularly with the Horn of Africa, the author casts doubt on whether successive US administrations had a cohesive foreign policy for Africa. The...
UBC Press, 2002. — 252 p. An investigation of the gap between Canadian perceptions of American policy toward Canada and actual US policy. It uses a large number of cases dealing with political and economic issues and concludes that for the most part Canada was unimportant in Washington.
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 624 p. A new and unique framework for understanding the history of the foreign policy of the United States. The United States is now nearly 250 years old. It arose from humble beginnings, as a strip of mostly agrarian and sparsely populated English colonies on the northeastern edge of the New World, far removed from the centers of power in...
Routledge, 1994. — 280 p. This major new textbook brings together twelve of the leading scholars of U.S. foreign relations. * Each contributor provides a clear, concise summary of an important period or theme in US diplomatic and strategic affairs since the Spanish-American War. * Articles follow the chronological development of the emergence of the United States as a world...
Greenwood, 2002. — 472 p. In a series of in-depth essays, this book describes the United States' response to diplomatic, economic, military, political, and cultural developments in East Asia. While focusing particularly on China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, the encyclopedia also provides solid coverage of Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and...
Greenwood, 2002. — 424 p. In a series of in-depth essays, this book describes the United States' response to diplomatic, economic, military, political, and cultural developments in East Asia. While focusing particularly on China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, the encyclopedia also provides solid coverage of Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and...
Har-Anand Publications, 2000. — 223 p. Relations between India and the United States date back to India's independence movement and have continued well after independence from the United Kingdom in 1947. Currently, India and the United States enjoy close relations and have often seen eye-to-eye on issues such as counterterrorism, the Kashmir conflict, and share mutual distrust...
Oxford University Press, 1975. — 236 p. How the Past Has Been Used. World War II: Preparing for the Last Peace. The Cold War: Preventing World War II. Korea, 1950: History Overpowering Calculation. Vietnam: The Bed of Procrustes. How The Past Might Be Used. Analysis: Bombing for Peace Prediction: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Next Decade Tasks for Historians Notes
Routledge, 2018. — 282 p. The main tide of international relations scholarship on the first years after World War II sweeps toward Cold War accounts. These have emphasized the United States and USSR in a context of geopolitical rivalry, with concomitant attention upon the bristling security state. Historians have also extensively analyzed the creation of an economic order...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 300 p. This fascinating history reveals the effect of personality and circumstance on US foreign policy during World War II. It traces the history of American envoys residing in the major belligerent countries, highlighting how diplomats sculpted formal policy in ways not always intended by Franklin D. Roosevelt or his advisors.
Oxford University Press, 1988. — 417 p. Chronology Early career Early Influences and Development First Tour in the Soviet Union Criticisms and Recommendations Nazi Germany and the Future of Europe Soviet War Aims and the Grand Alliance Making foreign policy Containment and the Primacy of Diplomacy Cold War in Europe Far Eastern Dilemmas Two Ambassadorships On the sidelines Cold...
Public Affairs, 2019. — 495 p. The dramatic insider account of why we made the decision to invade Iraq, the key people who drove it and their motives, and those who tried and failed to stop it, leading to the most costly misadventure in US history. Leap of Faith is the first comprehensive and objective history of the decision to invade Iraq. Based on nine years of research,...
Stanford University Press, 2007. — 234 p. The Paradox of a Global USA describes the vexed relationship between the United States and globalization. On the one hand, the U.S. has vociferously promoted modernization and open markets, both central components of the process of globalization. On the other hand, it appears to be resolutely determined not to live within an...
Cornell University Press, 2021. — 280 p. In Wilsonian Visions, James McAllister recovers the history of the most influential forum of American liberal internationalism in the immediate aftermath of the First World War: The Williamstown Institute of Politics. Established in 1921 by Harry A. Garfield, the president of Williams College, the Institute was dedicated to promoting an...
Rowman and Littlefield, 2012. — 484 p. The new edition of this leading reader for courses in American foreign policy offers students an up-to-date, highly accessible introduction to the broad array of domestic factors influencing U.S. policymakers. Editor James M. McCormick has carefully selected two dozen current insightful and sometimes controversial essays by a distinguished...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. — 312 p. Did the United States "win" the Cold War? In its self-congratulatory euphoria, argues Thomas McCormick in this new edition of his highly acclaimed study, America neglected a twenty-year process of political and economic devolution--the real threat to global peace and prosperity. Revised and updated through 1993, it describes how...
University of Michigan Press, 2020. — 309 p. Between December 1953 and June 1954, the elite think-tank the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) joined prominent figures in International Relations, including Pennsylvania’s Robert Strausz-Hupé, Yale’s Arnold Wolfers, the Rockefeller Foundation’s William Thompson, government adviser Dorothy Fosdick, and nuclear strategist William...
Haymarket Books, 2017. — 280 p. In a completely original analysis, prize-winning historian Alfred W. McCoy explores America’s rise as a world power—from the 1890s through the Cold War—and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-first century through a fusion of cyberwar, space warfare, trade pacts, and military alliances. McCoy then analyzes the marquee instruments...
Yale University Press, 2016. — 411 p. — ISBN 978- 0- 300- 21145- 0. Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Walter A. McDougall argues powerfully that a pervasive but radically changing faith that “God is on our side” has inspired U.S. foreign policy ever since 1776. The first comprehensive study of the role played by civil religion in U.S. foreign relations over the entire course of...
Yale University Press, 2016. — 424 p. A fierce critique of civil religion as the taproot of America’s bid for global hegemony. Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Walter A. McDougall argues powerfully that a pervasive but radically changing faith that “God is on our side” has inspired U.S. foreign policy ever since 1776. The first comprehensive study of the role played by civil...
St. Martin's Press, 2021. — 352 p. A gripping and groundbreaking account of how all but one of FDR's ambassadors in Europe misjudged Hitler and his intentions. As German tanks rolled toward Paris in late May 1940, the U.S. Ambassador to France, William Bullitt, was determined to stay put, holed up in the Chateau St. Firmin in Chantilly, his country residence. Bullitt told the...
Monthly Review Press, 1985. — 302 p. Analyzes the aims and goals of the Reagan administration's foreign policy, looks at arms control and nuclear proliferation, and discusses U.S. intervention in South America.
Potomac Books, 2008. — 257 p. This compact and accessible biography critically assesses the life and career of Dean Acheson, one of America's foremost diplomats and strategists. As a top State Department official from 1941 to 1947 and as Harry S. Truman's secretary of state from 1949 to 1953, Acheson shaped many of the key U.S. foreign policy initiatives of those years,...
CQ Press, 2012. — 745 p. For a nation that has spent the majority of its history dedicated to the isolationism of Washington’s Farewell Address and the Monroe Doctrine, America’s current position as arbiter of global disputes was unforeseen by even the most optimistic of founders. These two volumes—comprised mainly of 40 chronologically arranged narrative chapters—skillfully...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 273 p. An examination of how US states and governors connect to American foreign relations, this book argues that these subnational actors should be analyzed in international relations scholarship.
University Alabama Press, 2007. — 176 p. In his study of the New South and foreign affairs, Tennant McWilliams raises a central question: why have southerners failed to develop a realistic attitude about U.S. relations with the rest of the world? He notes that throughout their history southerners have encountered failure, poverty, guilt, defeat, and ridicule and that their...
Yale University Press, 2018. — 328 p. It is widely believed in the West that the United States should spread liberal democracy across the world, foster an open international economy, and build international institutions. The policy of remaking the world in America’s image is supposed to protect human rights, promote peace, and make the world safe for democracy. But this is not...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. — 495 p. The Israel Lobby," by John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, was one of the most controversial articles in recent memory. Originally published in the London Review of Books in March 2006, it provoked both howls of outrage and cheers of gratitude for...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 332 p. The practise of outlining principles for the conduct of US security policy in so-called doctrines is a characteristic feature of US foreign policy. From an international lawyer's point of view two aspects of these doctrines are of particular interest. First, to what degree are the criteria for the use of force, as laid down in these...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 295 p. This book provides a multifaceted analysis of the so-called US 'rebalance' (or 'pivot') toward Asia by focusing on the diplomatic, military, and economic dimensions of the American foreign policy shift in the Asia Pacific region.
Palgrave Macmillan, 1991. — 257 p. This is a solid, well-documented, readable study of the attempts to rebuild a foreign policy consensus in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. Melanson, acting director of the International Relations Program at Brown University, analyzes the grand designs, strategic objectives, and tactics of the Nixon, Carter, and Reagan administrations. Has the...
University of Chicago Press, 2020. — 362 p. American foreign policy is the subject of extensive debate. Many look to domestic factors as the driving forces of bad policies. Benjamin Miller instead seeks to account for changes in US international strategy by developing a theory of grand strategy that captures the key security approaches available to US decision-makers in times...
University of North Carolina Press, 1986. — 356 p. The United States established diplomatic relations with Italy in 1861 following the unification of most of the peninsula into one state. In 1941, Italy — with the other World War II Axis powers Germany and Japan — declared war on the United States. U.S. relations with Italy were reestablished in 1944. Since Mussolini's rise to...
Cornell University Press, 2018. — 329 p. Stopping the Bomb examines the historical development and effectiveness of American efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. Nicholas L. Miller offers here a novel theory that argues changes in American nonproliferation policy are the keys to understanding the nuclear landscape from the 1960s onward. The Chinese and Indian...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. — 609 p. A new intellectual history of U.S. foreign policy from the late nineteenth century to the present. Worldmaking is a fresh and compelling new take on the history of American diplomacy. Rather than retracing a familiar story of realism versus idealism, David Milne suggests that U.S. foreign policy has also been crucially divided between...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2012. — 241 p. Why do presidents, when facing the same circumstances, focus on different threats to national security? Enemies of the American Way attempts to answer this question by investigating the role of identity in presidential decision making. The book explains why presidents disagree on what constitute a threat to the US security via the study of...
Routledge, 2005. — 271 p. David Mitchell provides a better understanding of the role presidents play in the decision-making process in terms of their influence on two key steps in the process: deliberation and outcome of policy making. The events that have taken place in relation to the Bush administration's decisions to fight the war on terrorism and invade Iraq highlight how...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. — 191 p. In November of 2003, a stolen election in the former Soviet republic of Georgia led to protests and the eventual resignation of President Eduard Shevardnadze. Shevardnadze was replaced by a democratically elected government led by President Mikheil Saakashvili, who pledged to rebuild Georgia, orient it toward the West, and...
Stanford University Press, 2016. — 880 p. In the mid-1970s, the Cold War had frozen into a nuclear stalemate in Europe and retreated from the headlines in Asia. As Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter fought for the presidency in late 1976, the superpower struggle overseas seemed to take a backseat to more contentious domestic issues of race relations and rising unemployment. There was...
First Draft Publishing, 2020. — 298 p. Kabir Mohabbat, acted as a secret diplomatic envoy from the United States Government to the government of the Taliban in Afghanistan. My first trip was in June 1999. My last trip began on September 5, 2001. The purpose of the trips eventually became to arrange for the delivery of Osama bin Laden into the hands of the United States using...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 354 p. This book is the first comprehensive study of the Reagan administration's policy toward the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile. Based on new primary and archival materials, as well as on original interviews with former U.S. and Chilean officials, it traces the evolution of Reagan policy from an initial "close...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 350 p. It could be said that American foreign policy since 1945 has been one long miscue; most international threats - including during the Cold War - have been substantially exaggerated. The result has been agony and bloviation, unnecessary and costly military interventions that have mostly failed. A policy of complacency and appeasement...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 342 p. It could be said that American foreign policy since 1945 has been one long miscue; most international threats - including during the Cold War - have been substantially exaggerated. The result has been agony and bloviation, unnecessary and costly military interventions that have mostly failed. A policy of complacency and appeasement...
Duke University Press Books, 2005. — 208 p. In 1823, President James Monroe announced that the Western Hemisphere was closed to any future European colonization and that the United States would protect the Americas as a space destined for democracy. Over the next century, these ideas—which came to be known as the Monroe Doctrine—provided the framework through which Americans...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2008. — 197 p. This book is about U.S. policy makers who have wielded enormous influence, largely behind the scenes, since the end of World War II. The advent of the Cold War brought new problems of national security for the United States. As a result, U.S. presidents no longer sat down with their secretaries of state to determine the nation's...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 720 p. A man who lived his life mostly in the shadows, Edward M. House is little known or remembered today; yet he was one of the most influential figures of the Wilson presidency. Wilson's chief political advisor, House played a key role in international diplomacy, and had a significant hand in crafting the Fourteen Points at the Paris Peace...
Columbia University Press, 2022. — 507 p. How does the history of U.S. foreign relations appear differently when viewed through the lens of ideology? This book explores the ideological landscape of international relations from the colonial era to the present. It offers a foundational statement on the intellectual history of U.S. foreign policy.
Cambridge University Press, 1981. — 253 p. An interpretive history of the uses of cultural relations in U.S. foreign policy. Analyzes the links between fundamental foreign policy outlooks and American institutional structures. Shows how the U.S. made the transition from foreign policy passivity in the 1930s to global activism in the 1950s.
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2021. — 380 p. US Foreign aid is one of the most misunderstand functions of our federal government. Consuming less than 1% of the federal government budget, it has nonetheless played an outsized role in political debate. At the center of this controversy and misunderstanding has been the U.S. Agency for International Development, or AID, the...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 272 p. A concise yet penetrating analysis of how modern American presidents have--and have not--incorporated ethics into their foreign policy. Americans constantly make moral judgments about presidents and foreign policy. Unfortunately, many of these assessments are poorly thought through. In Do Morals Matter?, Joseph S. Nye, Jr. provides a...
Princeton University Press, 2013. — 200 p. This book examines the foreign policy decisions of the presidents who presided over the most critical phases of America's rise to world primacy in the twentieth century, and assesses the effectiveness and ethics of their choices. Joseph Nye, who was ranked as one of Foreign Policy magazine's 100 Top Global Thinkers, reveals how some...
Routledge, 2020. — 215 p. This book argues against the tendency to see America as the worst or best nation and instead presents a case for seeing anti-Americanism as a counterproductive prejudice. There are many reasons to criticise American policies, politics and even society, but a crucial distinction must be drawn between criticism and prejudice. Charting the development and...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2014. — 210 p. One of the most controversial figures of the New Deal Era, Harry Hopkins elicited few neutral responses from his contemporaries. Millions admired him and believed the New Deal agencies he headed had rescued them from despair, but many of President Roosevelt’s enemies passionately hated him and derisively called him the “world’s...
University of North Carolina Press, 1991. — 332 p. In this important study, Chester Pach traces the emergence of military assistance as a major instrument of contemporary American foreign policy. During the early Cold War, arms aid grew from a few country and regional programs into a worldwide effort with an annual cost of more than $1 billion. Pach analyzes the Truman...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. — 317 p. Oil and the American Century examines the evolution of U.S. oil policies in the 1940s and 1950s and traces the sources and consequences of the partnership that developed between government and business to regulate the world oil economy. David S. Painter explains how early attempts to develop and implement a foreign oil policy were...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010. — 208 p. An insightful study of how America handles independence movements overseas. By examining several cases of U.S. management of secessionist crises in the Balkans and Africa, Jonathan Paquin shows that American foreign policy occasionally recognizes break-away states if it believes that supporting them will help re-establish regional...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 225 p. This book undertakes an in-depth examination of the dynamics of commitment in U.S.-Southeast Asia strategy. Drawing on cases including the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam and Washington’s pivot to Asia amid China’s growing regional role, it constructs an original balance of commitment model to explain continuity and change in U.S.-Southeast Asia...
University Press of Kentucky, 2018. — 424 p. The wars that accompanied the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s were the deadliest European conflicts since World War II. The violence escalated to the point of genocide when, over the course of ten days in July 1995, Serbian troops under the command of General Ratko Mladic murdered 8,000 unarmed men and boys who had sought refuge...
Routledge, 2010. — 248 p. The rise of widespread negative attitudes towards US foreign policy, especially due to the war of aggression against Iraq and the subsequent military occupation of the country – has brought new attention to the meaning and instruments of soft power. In this edited collection, an outstanding line up of contributors provides the most extensive discussion...
2nd ed. — Routledge, 2014. — 342 p. This significantly revised, updated and extended second edition of New Directions in US Foreign Policy retains the strongest aspects of its original structure but adds a comprehensive account of the latest theoretical perspectives, the key actors and issues, and new policy directions. Offering a detailed and systematic outline of the field,...
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1969. — 318 p. In this book, Carl P. Parrini examines the evolution of United States economic diplomacy during a critical period in world history. After World War I, leaders were poised to begin “The American Century”, when the United States would assume the dominant role as the world's foremost political, economic and military power. This was to...
Westview Press, 2002. — 448 p. The author, who directed Latin American affairs for the National Security Council from 1977 to 1981, makes a valuable addition to the literature on U.S.-Nicaraguan relations. He provides an insider's view of how Latin American policy was made; an analysis of what might have changed the outcome in Nicaragua; and how the United States should deal...
Routledge, 2020. — 264 p. In the Post-Cold War era, US nuclear foreign policies towards India witnessed a major turnaround as a demand for ‘cap, reduce, eliminate’ under the Clinton administration was replaced by the implementation of the historic ‘civil nuclear deal’ in 2008 by Bush, a policy which continued under Obama’s administration. This book addresses the change in US...
Oxford University Press, 1989. — 424 p. The first major reassessment of John F. Kennedy's foreign policy since his death, this volume of original essays compels new thinking about the 1960s. Basing their analysis on extensive research in archival documents and oral histories, twelve accomplished historians explore the primary foreign policy assumptions and objectives of Kennedy...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 336 p. This book posits that democracy promotion played a key role in the Reagan administration’s Cold War foreign policy. It analyzes the democracy initiatives launched under Reagan and the role of administration officials, neoconservatives and non-state actors, such as the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), in shaping a new model of democracy...
Crown, 2013. — 432 p. A study of the sixteenth president's evolution as a foreign policy leader explores his role in America's rise to a world power, analyzing six distinct episodes that defined his foreign policy stance and enabled him to maintain a careful balance during the Civil war years.
Routledge, 2020. — 246 p. This book offers a broad and deep examination of the dynamics of US imperialism. Petras analyzes imperialism not only as economic domination, showing that its impact in the world takes many forms, including cultural, political and historical. He points to the disruptive effects it has on other world regional economies and cultures. Capitalism and...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 301 p. This study provides the first book-length account of U.S.-Habsburg relations from their origins in the early nineteenth century through the aftermath of World War I and the Paris Peace Conference. By including not only high-level diplomacy but also an analysis of diplomats' ceremonial and social activities, as well as an exploration of...
Greenwood, 2003. — 320 p. Recurring throughout our history are the ideas that repressive governments are doomed to failure; that liberty is a motivating force; that freedom comes with responsibilities and must be guided by principles; that the example of our democracy is a challenge to all forms of political repression and an inspiration to those desiring to be free. Wilson and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 265 p. In 1940, the USSR occupied and annexed Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, leading to calls by many that the Soviets had violated international law. This book examines British, US, and Soviet policies toward the Baltic states, placing the true significance of the Baltic question in its proper geopolitical context.
Brookings Institution Press, 2001. — 287 p. The United States government-backed by the overwhelming support of the American public-takes a hard line against international terrorism. The tenets of official U.S. counterterrorist policy are: make no concessions or deals with terrorists; bring them to justice for their crimes; isolate and apply pressure on states that sponsor...
Columbia University Press, 2016. — 226 p. Being insulated by two immense oceans makes it hard for Americans to appreciate the concerns of more exposed countries. American democracy's rapid rise also fools many into thinking the same liberal system can flourish anywhere, and having populated a vast continent with relative ease impedes Americans' understanding of conflicts...
Warszawa: PAI, Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych, 1986. — 193 s. — ISBN 83-223-2379-4 Prezentowana obecnie publikacja „Polityka Stanów Zjednoczonych Ameryki wobec Polski w świetle faktów i dokumentów (1984—1985)" traktowana jest jako druga część publikacji wydanej w 1983 r. pod tym samym tytułem. Obecne opracowanie, podobnie jak poprzednie, służy wykazaniu źródeł,...
Routledge, 2024. — 252 p. Foreign Aid – Policy and Practice by Phyllis R. Pomerantz offers a complete overview of the basics of foreign aid. Who is it for? Who pays for it? Why does it exist? What is it spent on? How much is it? And most important, does it work? The aid debate has been flooded by academic studies and popular books that either challenge or champion the...
Routledge, 2024. — 252 p. Foreign Aid – Policy and Practice by Phyllis R. Pomerantz offers a complete overview of the basics of foreign aid. Who is it for? Who pays for it? Why does it exist? What is it spent on? How much is it? And most important, does it work? The aid debate has been flooded by academic studies and popular books that either challenge or champion the...
Praeger, 1991. — 312 p. Conceived with a dedication to manifest destiny, individual freedom, and opportunity, the United States, from its inception, made an effort to avoid political or military involvement in Europe which could conflict with its pursuit of those goals. Ronald E. Powaski's study analyzes why the United States pursued this isolationist policy, and the factors,...
Cato Institute, 2019. — 250 p. Has the United States been a force for liberty around the world? Should it be? And if so, how? To answer these questions, Christopher A. Preble traces the history of U.S. foreign policy from the American Founding to the present, examining the ideas that have animated it, asking whether America's policy choices have made the world safer and freer,...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 152 p. For better or worse—be it militarily, politically, economically, technologically, or culturally—Americans have had a profound role in shaping the wider world beyond them. The United States has been a savior to some, a curse to others, but either way such views are often based on a caricature of American actions and intentions. American...
Routledge, 2010. — 239 p. This work blends strategic analysis of contemporary US foreign policy with long-term historical discussion, producing an important argument relevant to the debates surrounding both the merits of contemporary US foreign policy and the long-term trends at work in American political culture. Rather than a detailed historical study of the Bush...
Lexington Books, 2008. — 193 p. In the thirty-five years since the violent overthrow of Chilean President Salvador Allende, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has vehemently denied U.S. involvement. Almost with the same breath, Kissinger suggests that the democratically elected Allende represented Soviet aggression in Latin America, therefore posing a threat to the...
Harvard University Press, 2020. — 272 p. For the first century and a half of its existence, the United States had just one alliance―a valuable but highly controversial military arrangement with France. Largely out of deference to George Washington’s warnings against the dangers of “entangling alliances,” subsequent American presidents did not consider entering another until the...
CQ Press, 2014. — 448 p. In his eagerly-awaited second edition of American Foreign Policy and Political Ambition, James Ray revisits his deceptively simple premise that the highest priority of leaders is to stay in power. Looking at how political ambition and domestic pressures impact foreign policymaking is the key to understanding how and why foreign policy decisions are...
Routledge, 2021. — 248 p. Thailand, a long-standing defence partner of the United States and ASEAN’s second largest economy, occupies a geostrategically important position as a land bridge between China and maritime Southeast Asia. This book, based on extensive original research, explores the current state of US-Thai relations, paying particular attention to how the United...
Routledge, 2017. — 440 p. The prosperity and national security of the United States depend directly on the prosperity and stability of both partner and competing countries around the world. Today, U.S. interests are under rising pressure from water scarcity, extreme weather events and water-driven ecological change in key geographies of strategic interest to the U.S. Those...
Routledge, 2014. — 389 p. In Pursuit of Prosperity provides a much needed exploration of the evolution of environmental sustainability in U.S. foreign policy. Through expert analysis of nine countries and regions of strategic importance, David Reed and his stellar team of experts in foreign policy and environmental affairs identify emerging threats to the prosperity and...
Harvard University Asia Center, 1983. — 280 p. At a telling moment in the development of American East Asia policy, the dream of a Christian China, made vivid by the utterances of returned missionaries, fired the imagination of the general public, influenced opinion leaders and policymakers, and furthered the Open Door doctrine. Missionary-inspired enthusiasm for China ran...
De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2020. — 680 p. An American in Europe at War and Peace offers a rare personal record of Hugh Gibson, a top American diplomat, during the last months of World War I and the first months of peace. The Chronicles give unique insights on events in Europe and presents Gibson’s commentary in real time with the voice of an extremely well-connected American at the...
Routledge, 2022. — 467 p. The Routledge History of U.S. Foreign Relations provides a comprehensive view of U.S. diplomacy and foreign affairs from the founding to the present. With contributions from recognized experts from around the world, this volume unveils America’s long and complicated history on the world stage. It presents the United States’ evolution from a weak...
Bristol University Press, 2021. — 232 p. The decision to mount an armed foreign intervention is one of the most consequential that a US president can take. This book sets out to explain why and when presidents choose to use force. The book examines decisions to use force throughout the post-Cold War period, via flashpoints including the Balkans, the ‘War on Terror’ and the...
University of Michigan Press, 2021. — 308 p. Does foreign aid promote human rights? As the world's largest aid donor, the United States has provided foreign assistance to nearly 200 countries. Deploying global numerical data on US foreign aid and comparative historical analysis of America's post-Cold War foreign policies in Southeast Asia, Aid Imperium provides the most...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. — 352 p. International human rights issues perpetually highlight the tension between political interest and idealism. Over the last fifty years, the United States has labored to find an appropriate response to each new human rights crisis, balancing national and global interests as well as political and humanitarian impulses. Human Rights...
Kent State University Press, 2013. — 264 p. Most studies of U.S. relations with Greece focus on the Cold War period, beginning with the enunciation of the Truman Doctrine in 1947. There is little substance in the extant literature about American policy toward or interaction with Greece prior to World War II. This overlooks the important intersections between the two countries...
Routledge, 2015. — 285 p. How does American exceptionalism shape American foreign policy? Conventional wisdom states that American exceptionalism comes in two variations – the exemplary version and the missionary version. Being exceptional, experts in U.S. foreign policy argue, means that you either withdraw from the world like an isolated but inspiring "city upon a hill," or...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 231 p. With the US armed forces playing an ever increasing central role in American foreign policy, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the role of regional Commanders-in-Chief (CINCs) in both implementing and shaping relations with various countries. Wielding tremendous power and substantial resources, both military and economic, these...
Praeger Publishers, 2001. — 238 p. This study presents an in-depth survey of the principal policies and personalities of American diplomacy of the era, together with a discussion of recent historiography in the field. For two decades between the two world wars, America pursued a foreign policy course that was, according to Rhodes, shortsighted and self-centered. Believing World...
University of Illinois Press, 2016. — 257 p. It is the early Cold War. The Soviet Union appears to be in irresistible ascendance, and moves to exploit the Olympic Games as a vehicle for promoting international communism. In response, the United States conceives a subtle, far-reaching psychological warfare campaign to blunt the Soviet advance. Drawing on newly declassified...
Routledge, 2008. — 239 p. This book offers an in-depth examination of America‘s nuclear weapons policy since the end of the Cold War. Exploring nuclear forces structure, arms control, regional planning and the weapons production complex, the volume identifies competing sets of ideas about nuclear weapons and domestic political constraints on major shifts in policy.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. — 268 p. This analysis of US policy towards Indonesian nationalism concludes that Truman's support for independence was based on his Cold War priorities and not principled backing for self-determination. It reveals how Eisenhower's New Look led to a disastrous CIA-backed intervention in 1957-1958 and propelled Indonesia towards the Soviet bloc....
Routledge, 2007. — 234 p. The issues raised by the Iraq War are symptomatic of larger phenomena that will continue to preoccupy American foreign policy makers well into the twenty-first century. The war on terror, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, humanitarian intervention, and a litany of other concerns on the foreign policy agenda pose complex dilemmas for...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 237 p. When the post-war relationship between Spain and America began, Hitler's old ally was an unlikely candidate for US influence. The Cold War changed all this. Soon there were US bases on Spanish territory and a political conjuring trick was under way. This volume examines the public diplomacy strategies that the US government employed to...
Brookings Institution Press, 2008. — 286 p. Proposes an analytical foundation for national security that challenges long-held assumptions or outdated suppositions about foreign affairs. Presents case studies of American foreign policy toward developing countries, efforts at state building, and nations growing in importance. Concludes with recommendations designed to close the...
Routledge, 2021. — 353 p. — ISBN 978-0-367-74289-8. In no era of American history did the idea of isolationism produce more intense debate than in the period between the world wars. And while the “end of isolationism” was popularly declared at the conclusion of World War II, isola-tionism still surfaces regularly on the national scene (as we have seen with the installation of...
Routledge, 1985. — 250 p. This study of executive-branch decision making explores the conflict between the diplomatic and developmental mandates of U.S. foreign-aid programs on two levels. First, a given amount of programming funded for a country must be divided among various activities, some of which are directed toward long-term development while others encourage short-term...
Routledge, 2019. — 287 p. The quest for a viable policy toward the Third World will be a dominant theme in U.S. foreign policy throughout this decade. But before any judgments can be made about the range of choices for U.S. policymakers, it is necessary to understand the pressures that are likely to confront developing nations during the 1980s as well as the efforts of these...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 246 p. Whereas most discussions of history have centered on the rift between China and Japan, this book focuses on three other divisions stemming from deep-seated memories within Northern Asia, which increasingly will test U.S. diplomacy and academic analysis. The first division involves long-suppressed Japanese and South Korean memories that...
ABC-CLIO, 2017. — 416 p. Examines the perspectives of Democrats and Republicans on dozens of major foreign policy issues of the 21st century, illuminating both areas of consensus and issues where partisan divisions are wide. From the earliest days of the republic through the Cold War and to the present day, American foreign policy has been colored by the beliefs and values of...
University Press of Kentucky, 2014. — 375 p. Before U.S. combat units were deployed to Vietnam, presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy strove to defeat a communist-led insurgency in Laos. This impoverished, landlocked Southeast Asian kingdom was geopolitically significant because it bordered more powerful communist and anticommunist nations. The Ho Chi Minh Trail, which traversed...
Routledge, 2018. — 170 p. Historically, the United States saw itself as embodying the best system of government with a foreign policy goal of bringing this system to the rest of the world. While Washington has, at times, dealt more realistically with other great powers at odds with this view, it has also attempted to alienate lesser states who reject the American system. The...
Columbia University Press, 2018. — 268 p. The American Century began in 1941 and ended on January 20, 2017. While the United States remains a military giant and is still an economic powerhouse, it no longer dominates the world economy or geopolitics as it once did. The current turn toward nationalism and “America first” unilateralism in foreign policy will not make America...
Duke University Press Books, 2022. — 368 р. In The End of Pax Americana, Naoki Sakai focuses on U.S. hegemony's long history in East Asia and the effects of its decline on contemporary conceptions of internationality. Engaging with themes of nationality in conjunction with internationality, the civilizational construction of differences between East and West, and empire and...
Foreedge, 2017. — 272 p. John F. Kennedy carried on a lifelong love affair with England and the English. From his speaking style to his tastes in art, architecture, theater, music, and clothes, his personality reflected his deep affinity for a certain kind of idealized Englishness. In Union Jack, noted biographer Christopher Sandford tracks Kennedy's exploits in Great Britain...
Routledge, 2018. — 192 p. This book provides an alternative perspective on how social interest-groups form and interact to affect interventions. It combines historic, sociological and international relations perspectives in a framework through which to view the relevant socio-political dynamics in ‘target societies’. At a time when American foreign policy seeks to redefine its...
Routledge, 2019. — 295 p. With a review of the executive branch and congressional actions, this book provides the purposes and history of U.S. active participation in the multilateral development banks and the relationship between process and goals in the formulation and application of U.S. Foreign policy.
Crown, 2012. — 496 p. Inside the White House Situation Room, the newly elected Barack Obama immerses himself in the details of a remarkable new American capability to launch cyberwar against Iran—and escalates covert operations to delay the day when the mullahs could obtain a nuclear weapon. Over the next three years Obama accelerates drone attacks as an alternative to putting...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 457 p. During the 1970s, American foreign policy faced a predicament of clashing imperatives—US decision makers, already struggling to maintain stability and devise strategic frameworks to guide the exercise of American power during the Cold War, found themselves hampered by the emergence of dilemmas that would come to a head in the post-Cold...
University of Notre Dame Press, 2020. — 452 p. This book explores the bilateral relations between the United States and the Vatican from 1975 to 1980, a turbulent period that had two presidents, three presidential envoys, and three popes. This previously untold story shows how the United States and the Vatican worked quietly together behind the scenes to influence the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 350 p. This book examines historic examples of US public diplomacy in order to understand how past uses and techniques of foreign public engagement evolved into modern public diplomacy as a tool of American statecraft. The study explores six historic cases where the United States’ government or private American citizens actively engaged with foreign...
University Press of Kentucky, 2021. — 304 p. In The Sailor, David F. Schmitz presents a comprehensive reassessment of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's foreign policymaking. Most historians have cast FDR as a leader who resisted an established international strategy and who was forced to react quickly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, launching the nation into World War II. Drawing...
Potomac Books, 2007. — 173 p. Triumph of Internationalism offers fresh and concise analysis and narrative of FDR's foreign policy from 1933 to America's entry into World War II in 1941 and covers America's recovery from the Great Depression, 'Good Neighbor' policy in Latin America and the US response to the war in Europe and the Pacific.
Harvard University Press, 2018. — 400 p. For over a century, the United States has sought to improve the behavior of the peoples of Latin America. Perceiving their neighbors to the south as underdeveloped and unable to govern themselves, U.S. policy makers have promoted everything from representative democracy and economic development to oral hygiene. Whatever the problem, a...
Blackwell Publishing, 2003. — 577 p. Notes on Contributors. Robert D. Schulzinger. Ideas and Foreign Affairs. H. W. Brands. “As Far As We Can”: Culture and US Foreign Relations. Susan Brewer. International Environmental Issues. Kurk Dorsey. The Early National Period, 1775–1815. Peter P. Hill. American Expansion, 1815–1860. William E. Weeks. The United States and Imperialism....
Blackwell Publishing, 2003. — 577 p. This is an authoritative volume of historiographical essays that survey the state of U.S. diplomatic relations history. The essays cover the entire range of the history of American foreign relations from the colonial period to the present. They discuss the major sources and analyze the most influential books and articles in the field....
Oxford University Press, 2001. — 444 p. U.S. Diplomacy Since 1900 has long been admired as the most comprehensive and accessible survey available. Now in its fifth edition, the book traces the major events in the history of U.S. foreign relations, from the Spanish-American War to the present. Schulzinger explains how U.S. foreign policy is made and discusses public ideas about...
Hill and Wang, 2020. — 560 p. Over the past six decades, Henry Kissinger has been America’s most consistently praised - and reviled - public figure. He was hailed as a "miracle worker" for his peacemaking in the Middle East, pursuit of détente with the Soviet Union, negotiation of an end to the Vietnam War, and secret plan to open the United States to China. He was assailed...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 268 p. While there has been a flood of scholarly efforts to extend, adapt, and revise Foucault’s exploration of the emergence and operations of neoliberalism, the study of foreign policy has remained steeped in the analysis of partisanship, institutions, policies, and personality and their influence on various issue areas, toward particular...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 268 p. While there has been a flood of scholarly efforts to extend, adapt, and revise Foucault’s exploration of the emergence and operations of neoliberalism, the study of foreign policy has remained steeped in the analysis of partisanship, institutions, policies, and personality and their influence on various issue areas, toward particular...
Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. — 248 p. — ISBN-10 0742525228; ISBN-13 978-0742525221. Peter Dale Scott's brilliantly researched tour de force illuminates the underlying forces that drive U.S. global policy from Vietnam to Colombia and now to Afghanistan and Iraq. He brings to light the intertwined patterns of drugs, oil politics, and intelligence networks that have been so central...
University of California Press, 2008. — 520 p. This is an ambitious, meticulous examination of how U.S. foreign policy since the 1960s has led to partial or total cover-ups of past domestic criminal acts, including, perhaps, the catastrophe of 9/11. Peter Dale Scott, whose previous books have investigated CIA involvement in southeast Asia, the drug wars, and the Kennedy...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 294 p. Shirley Scott explains how the USA has benefited from continuity in its strategic engagement with international law. Observers of the USA's attitude towards international law seem to be perpetually taken aback by its actions, whether those relate to the use of force, the International Criminal Court or human rights. This book sets out...
Peter Lang, 2008. — 514 p. Exchange programmes have been a part of US foreign relations since the nineteenth century, but it was only during and after World War II that they were applied by the US government on a large scale to influence foreign publics in support of strategic objectives. This book looks at the background, organisation, and goals of the Department of State's...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 424 p. This book pinpoints continuities and changes in U.S. foreign economic policy from the fixed exchange rate system of the 1960s through to the period between the two oil crises of the 1970s. Chapters pay close attention to the interconnectedness between the long lasting decline of the U.S. Dollar on foreign exchange markets and the U.S. balance...
South End Press, 1993. — 292 p. Looking at Iraq, Libya, Grenada, Panama, Biafra, the Dominican Republic, Burundi, and other post Cold War hot spots, Shalom carefully documents the pretexts for U.S. intervention. The Sources of U.S. Foreign Policy. Capitalism and U.S. Foreign Policy. Racism and U.S. Foreign Policy. Sexism, Heterosexism, and U.S. Foreign Policy. The Soviet...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 340 p. This book argues that Islam has been securitized in US foreign policy, especially during the W. Bush administration when it was increasingly portrayed as the ultimate “other.” This securitization was realized through the association of Islam with unique security threats in speeches of foreign policy and national security. By analyzing the four...
Monthly Review Press, 1977. — 344 p. A Portrait of the Council on Foreign Relations. A Brief History of the Council. The Council Network. The Council and the New York Financial Oligarchy. The Council on Foreign Relations and United States Foreign Policy 1939-1975. Shaping a New World Order: The Council's Blueprint for World Hegemony, 1939-1975. Implementing the Councils World...
Scribner, 2010. — 1200 p. Turmoil and Triumph isn’t just a memoir—though it is that, too—it’s a thrilling retrospective on the eight tumultuous years that Schultz worked as secretary of state under President Ronald Reagan. Under Schultz’s strong leadership, America braved a nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union, increasingly damaging waves of terrorism abroad, scandals such...
Routledge, 2015. — 457 p. This bibliography, first published in 1990, is a result of a quarter-century professional and personal relationship between two academics interested in Middle East studies. The comprehensive bibliography consists of western, primarily English, language sources published through 1988 and early 1989 concerning foreign policy toward the Middle East and...
Cornell University Press, 2013. — 280 p. In the mid-nineteenth century the Irish question―the governance of the island of Ireland―demanded attention on both sides of the Atlantic. In A Union Forever, David Sim examines how Irish nationalists and their American sympathizers attempted to convince legislators and statesmen to use the burgeoning global influence of the United...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 160 p. Barack Obama's foreign policy has failed but the American strategic mind has not yet closed. In After Obama, Robert Singh examines how and why US influence has weakened and contributed to the erosion of the world America made, endangering international order and liberal values. A well-intentioned but naive strategy of engagement has...
Routledge, 2007. — 304 p. This book provides a lively and readable introduction to current debates over U.S. power and purpose in world affairs. The end of the Cold War launched a new era in U.S. foreign policy. The United States entered a period of unprecedented global power, but one also characterized by new conflicts, challenges, and controversies. The terrorist attacks of...
Routledge, 2010. — 165 p. The pattern of multilateral engagement and unilateral retrenchment in American foreign policy from the Cold War through the Clinton, Bush, and Obama years presents a puzzle. What accounts for the unilateralist turn? Is it a passing aberration attributable to the neoconservative ideology of the Bush administration? What then of the disengagement evident...
Bombardier Books, 2022. — 272 p. This is a behind-the-scenes look at Trump, his cabinet, and an international diplomacy you’ve never seen before—written by someone with no scores to settle, no hidden agenda, no check to cash, and no fucks to give. If you’ve heard of Gordon Sondland, it’s likely for one of the following two reasons: one, that he served as the US ambassador to...
Routledge, 2007. — 534 p. Less than a year after the United States entered the Second World War, Nicholas Spykman wrote a book that placed the war effort in the broader context of the 1940s global balance of power. In America's Strategy in World Politics, Spykman examined world politics from a realist geopolitical perspective. The United States, he explained, was fighting for...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. — 252 p. Diplomatic relations between the United States and Libya have rarely followed a smooth path. Washington has repeatedly tried and failed to mediate lasting solutions, to prevent recurrent crises, and to secure its own national interests in a region of increasing importance to the United States. Libya and the United States, Two...
The New York Times Company, 2011. — 608 p. The controversial anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks made headlines around the world when it released hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. government documents in 2010. Allowed advance access, The New York Times sorted, searched, and analyzed these secret archives, placed them in context, and played a crucial role in breaking the...
Routledge, 2020. — 126 p. This book investigates the drivers, tactics, and strategy that propel the Trump administration’s foreign policy. The key objective of this book is to look beyond the ‘noise’ of the Trump presidency in order to elucidate and make sense of contemporary US foreign policy. It examines the long-standing convictions of the president and the brutal worldview...
Routledge, 2019. — 262 p. Heir to a tradition that predates the founding of the Republic, the Foreign Service of the United States has been representing U.S. interests abroad for more than two centuries. During that time, it has undergone organizational changes and acquired new functions in a process of adaptation to changing circumstances. Today, Foreign Service personnel in...
Penguin, 2014. — 251 p. — ISBN 978-1-101-63142-3. How you answer any one of these questions will likely suggest how you answer most if not all of the others. And how you answer all of the questions will be an excellent indicator of how you are likely to think about other foreign policy crises, now or in the future. This book takes a side in this debate. No great power can treat...
The Teaching Company, 2008. 77 p. Achieving Independence Confederation and the Constitution The Great Debate—Jefferson versus Hamilton From the Farewell Addressto the Quasi War Jefferson and the Empire of Liberty The Second War for Independence John Quincy Adams & American Continentalism Manifest Destiny and the War with Mexico Causes and Diplomacy of the Civil War The New...
Praeger, 1977. — 244 p. Prelude to Controversy: January 1941 to January 1942. The American Initiative: January to April 1942. Second Front Diplomacy: April to June 1942. The Politics of TORCH: June to September 1942. The Consequences of TORCH: September 1942 to January 1943. The Merging of Old and New Issues: January to May 1943. The Summer Crises: May to August 1943. Showdown...
ABC-CLIO, 2009. — 330 p. Post-2002 events at the U.S. naval facility at Guantanamo Bay have generated a spate of books on its use as a detention center in the U.S. fight against terrorism. Yet the crucial enabling factor-the lease that gave the U.S. control over the territory in Cuba-has till now escaped any but cursory consideration. The Leasing of Guantanamo Bay explains just...
Lexington Books, 2020. — 172 p. Character and Consequence by Robert A. Strong, looks at important foreign policy decisions of George H. W. Bush through the lens of character and asks how personal traits like loyalty, compassion, reticence and audacity had an impact on American foreign policy at a pivotal point in world history. Combining biographical observations with in-depth...
University of Georgia Press, 1984. — 189 p. Origins. Wedemeyer in China. Wedemeyer in Korea. The Report. Reception. The Legacy Notes Bibliographical Essay
Praeger Publishers, 2004. — 210 p. This book provides a comparative analysis of 30 American interventions into Third World countries. An historical approach is used to place the featured cases into a more general history of American Diplomacy. The author uses his assessments to prove that U.S. foreign policy has been driven by the goal of being the ultimate power in the global...
Routledge, 2021. — 158 p. This work is concerned with the diplomatic history of the United States since the first settlers set foot on the shores of the continent. It is a handbook to serve a general public interested in American diplomacy as well as students engaged in course work in that area.
Brookings Institution Press, 2006. — 270 p. In this revised edition of the highly praised Engaging India, Strobe Talbott updates his bestselling diplomatic account of America's parallel negotiations with India and Pakistan over nuclear proliferation in the late 1990s. The update looks at recent nuclear dealings between India and the United States, including Indian Prime...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 311 p. The United States maintains defense ties with as many as 60 countries, which not only enables its armed forces to maintain command globally and to project its force widely, but also enables its government to exert leverage over allies' foreign policies and military strategies. In Defending Frenemies, Jeffrey W. Taliaferro presents a...
Westport: Greenwood Publishers, 2012. — 712 p. — ISBN10: 1258423197; ISBN13: 978-1258423193 Charles Callan Tansill, one of the foremost American diplomatic historians of the twentieth century, convincingly argues that Franklin Roosevelt wished to involve the United States in the European War that began in September 1939. When his efforts appeared to come to naught, Roosevelt...
Routledge, 2020. — 236 p. Providing a study of US policy towards Afghanistan from the Soviet intervention of 1979 to the exit of US/International Security Assistance Forces combat troops at the end of 2014, this book examines how the United States’ construction of its interests has shaped its long-term involvement with that country. Recognising that there is a particular focus...
University of Missouri Press, 1970. — 275 p. Focuses on the shifting public attitudes toward the Yalta Conference (1945) in the decade following it. The book describes how the Republicans in the late forties and early fifties used the accusations of treason and appeasement of the Soviet Union at Yalta by FDR to discredit the New Deal and to claim that no negotiations with the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. — 281 p. This book examines the internal controversies of the Roosevelt administration in connection with Spain during World War II, the role of the President in these controversies, and the foundations of the policy that was followed from the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War until the launching of Operation Torch in 1942.
Praeger Publishers, 2001. — 295 p. Thompson examines the U.S. role--both governmental and that of Irish-Americans--in attempting to bring a resolution to the strife in Northern Ireland. He concentrates on the efforts since 1967, particularly the growth of American efforts to become the central humanitarian player in the peace process. The U.S. government stance was initially...
Pluto Press, 2018. — 257 p. The way that imperial power is enacted around the world today has changed, but it has received little attention. Outsourced Empire aims to change that, re-evaluating the history of empire from the Cold War to the present by looking at the influence of para-state actors. A para-state is a region that seeks or claims, but does not officially have, the...
Routledge, 2018. — 288 p. This book challenges the dominant strategic culture and makes the case for restraint in US grand strategy in the 21st century. Grand strategy, meaning a state’s theory about how it can achieve national security for itself, is elusive. That is particularly true in the United States, where the division of federal power and the lack of direct security...
Duke University Press Books, 2007. — 234 p. What was the relationship between President Franklin D. Roosevelt, architect of America’s rise to global power, and the 1936–39 Spanish Civil War, which inspired passion and sacrifice, and shaped the road to world war? While many historians have portrayed the Spanish Civil War as one of Roosevelt’s most isolationist episodes, Dominic...
Little, Brown and Company, 2015. — 343 p. For nearly a century, up until the end of World War II in 1945, America enjoyed a Golden Age of decisive military triumphs. And then suddenly, we stopped winning wars. The decades since have been a Dark Age of failures and stalemates-in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan-exposing our inability to change course after battlefield...
Routledge, 2012. — 224 p. The war on terror did not start after 9/11, rather its origins must be traced back much further to the Reagan administration and the 1980s. Utilizing recently declassified archival resources, Toaldo offers an in-depth analysis of how ideas and threat perceptions were shaped both by traditional US policy in the Middle East during the Cold War and by the...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 275 p. Dying by the Sword explores the US's evolving foreign policies from the Founding era to the present in order to ring the alarm on the US's increasing reliance on "kinetic" global diplomacy. Monica Duffy Toft and Sidita Kushi find that since the end of the Cold War and especially after 9/11, the US has initiated higher rates of military...
Regnery Publishing, 2018. — 326 p. For decades, Americans have been conditioned to believe "foreign policy" is the policy of prioritzing the interests of foreign nations over American interests. After all, that's how previous presential administrations have behaved. But Donald Trump won the presidency because he promised a foreign policy that put America first. So what does...
Potomac Books, 2016. — 400 p. In March 1961 America’s most prominent journalist, Edward R. Murrow, ended a quarter-century career with the Columbia Broadcasting System to join the administration of John F. Kennedy as director of the United States Information Agency (USIA). Charged with promoting a positive image abroad, the agency sponsored overseas research programs, produced...
Routledge, 2020. — 278 p. The Reagan administration has indicated clearly that the United States will reassert its strategic presence in Asia and the Pacific at levels not equalled since the close of the Vietnam conflict. The implications of this policy bear careful examination in light of the growing divergence between U.S. security perceptions and those of our European policy.
University Press of Kentucky, 2014. — 215 p. Theodore Roosevelt's interest in foreign affairs was no less intense than his zeal for domestic reform, as Eugene P. Trani demonstrates in this new study of the Portsmouth Conference which in 1906 brought an end to the Russo-Japanese war. Conscious of America's growing stature as a world power and concerned lest continued hostilities...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 329 p. The Genesis of America investigates the ways in which US foreign policy contributed to the formation of an American national consciousness. Interpreting American nationalism as a process of external demarcation, Jasper M. Trautsch argues that, for a sense of national self to emerge, the US needed to be disentangled from its most...
Routledge, 2016. — 232 p. This book aims at gauging whether the nature of US foreign policy decision-making has changed after the Cold War as radically as a large body of literature seems to suggest, and develops a new framework to interpret presidential decision-making in foreign policy. It locates the study of risk in US foreign policy in a wider intellectual landscape that...
New York University Press, 1992. — 232 p. In The Imperial Temptation, two eminent foreign policy experts warn that America has made a Faustian bargain in its quest for the leadership of a new world order. In its attempts to address the challenges posed by new global realities, the Bush administration, so argues The Imperial Temptation, has betrayed the fundamental ideals on...
Praeger, 1986. — 236 p. Presenting 10 essays by well-known scholars, this volume evaluates recent American foreign policy in the light of existing theory and research and also demonstrates how foreign policy evaluation can and should be done. The contributors use a variety of techniques including data analysis and case studies to assess U.S. defense policy, hard-line stances...
Springer, 2022. — 232 p. This book presents an overview of the main changes in the United States' foreign policy in response to the transformations in the international order in the last decades. If, after the end of the Cold War, the USA invested in the universalization of market economy and in the strengthening of its military supremacy, new developments demanded...
Cambria Press, 2020. — 296 p. This book seeks explanation for the making and implementation of American foreign policy—the decisions and actions the United States takes vis-à-vis state and non-state actors abroad. The latter includes international (IOs) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), other groups and, in some cases, powerful individuals. In this effort we are drawn...
University Press of Kansas, 2017. — 318 p. Was the Iraq war really about oil? As a senior oil advisor for the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA) and briefly as minister of oil, Gary Vogler thought he knew. But while doing research for a book about his experience in Iraq, Vogler discovered that what he knew was not the whole story—or even the true...
Routledge, 2019. — 268 p. Henry Kissinger: Pragmatic Statesman in Hostile Times explores the influence of statesman Henry Kissinger in American foreign relations and national security during 1969 to 1977. Henry Kissinger arrived in the U.S. as a young Jewish refugee and went on to serve as National Security Advisor and Secretary of State to Presidents Nixon and Ford. The...
Berghahn Books, 1994. — 289 p. Founded in 1921, the Council on Foreign Relations is still active today; in fact, the interest in its activities is growing. However, to date little is known about the major aspects of the organization. We are pleased to offer the first comprehensive evaluation of its impact on the decision-making process of American foreign policy, particularly...
Greenwood Press, 1976. — 224 p. The Third Henry Wallace. The Isolationist Path. The International Path. The Planned Middle Course. God, Man, and the Guru. The Specter of War. The Century of the Common Man. The Fight Against Fascism at Home and Abroad. One World or None. Outsider in the Cabinet. Dissent and Dismissal. Year of Hope: 1947. Year of Defeat: 1948. Gladioli,...
Stanford Security Studies, 2011. — 360 p. Mistakes, in the form of bad decisions, are a common feature of every presidential administration, and their consequences run the gamut from unnecessary military spending, to missed opportunities for foreign policy advantage, to needless bloodshed. This book analyzes a range of presidential decisions made in the realm of US foreign...
Stanford Security Studies, 2011. — 360 p. Mistakes, in the form of bad decisions, are a common feature of every presidential administration, and their consequences run the gamut from unnecessary military spending, to missed opportunities for foreign policy advantage, to needless bloodshed. This book analyzes a range of presidential decisions made in the realm of US foreign...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 270 p. This book will illustrate that despite the variations of nuclear tensions during the Cold War period―from nuclear inception, to mass proliferation, to arms control treaties and détente, through to an intensification and “reasonable” conclusion (the INF Treaty and START being case points)―the “lessons” over the last decade are quickly being...
University Press of Kentucky, 2019. — 375 p. War and landpower's role in the twenty-first century is not just about military organizations, tactics, operations, and technology; it is also about strategy, policy, and social and political contexts. After fourteen years of war in the Middle East with dubious results, a diminished national reputation, and a continuing drawdown of...
Scarecrow Press, 2009. — 449 p. The image of Africa among Americans at the beginning of the 21st century is tragic; America's image among Africans is of a place that is splendid but arrogant and unfeeling. Both have large elements of truth. Poverty, coups, corruption, pandemic disease, and tribal, racial, and religious violence are all too common in Africa. So too is Americans'...
Da Capo Press, 2009. — 495 p. The Atlantic Century is the first major historical study to re-examine the American-European partnership with an emphasis on the personalities behind the policy. Our strong system of European alliances built during the last century did not happen serendipitously. It was carefully constructed and cemented by a network of diplomats and politicians,...
Springer, 1991. — 279 p. The decade of the 1990s offers a chance to build a new and better international order. What policy choices will this decade pose for the United States? This wide-ranging volume of essays imaginatively addresses these crucial issues. The peaceful revolutions of 1989-1990 in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe have swept away the foundations of the Cold...
Harvard University Press, 2020. — 272 p. A new history explains how and why, as it prepared to enter World War II, the United States decided to lead the postwar world. For most of its history, the United States avoided making political and military commitments that would entangle it in European-style power politics. Then, suddenly, it conceived a new role for itself as the...
Schwartz Publishing, 2018. — 192 p. ‘We’ve hidden behind a hope that American power and resolve will again prevail. Trump tears away any excuse for wishful thinking. The second issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines the United States’ sudden shift from the Asia Pivot to America First. It provides insights into Donald Trump’s White House and explores how his unpredictable...
Octagon Books, 1972. — 458 p. A Statistical Survey of Voting in Congress on Foreign Affairs. A Method for Analyzing Congressional Voting. The Foreign Aid Model. The Foreign Aid Model Confirmed. Exceptions to the Foreign, Aid Model. The Organization of the Parties in Congress for Foreign Affairs. Political Organization for Foreign Affairs in the House of Representatives....
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 320 p. The sciences played a critical role in American foreign policy after World War II. From atomic energy and satellites to the green revolution, scientific advances were central to American diplomacy in the early Cold War, as the United States leveraged its scientific and technical pre-eminence to secure alliances and markets. The growth...
Lexington Books, 2012. — 227 p. First Steps toward Detente is a history of negotiations associated with the Berlin crisis from 1958-1963, regulated by disarmament talks. Events include Khrushchev's visit to the U.S. in 1959, the Paris 1960 and Vienna 1961 summits, the construction of the Berlin Wall, the stalemate at Checkpoint Charlie, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Limited...
Eerdmans, 2021. — 239 p. When John Foster Dulles died in 1959, he was given the largest American state funeral since Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s in 1945. President Eisenhower called Dulles—his longtime secretary of state—“one of the truly great men of our time,” and a few years later the new commercial airport outside Washington, DC, was christened the Dulles International...
Routledge, 2004. — 398 p. As the public face of American has changed, so has the face of its foreign policy. Diversity and U.S. Foreign Policy, goes beyond the traditional texts that focus on foreign policy only as a contest between super-powers to grapple with multiculturalism in America and multi-polarism on the international state.
Vintage, 2007. — 500 p. National Book Award Finalist A Time , Newsweek , Washington Post , Chicago Tribune , and New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year A gripping narrative that spans five decades, The Looming Tower explains in unprecedented detail the growth of Islamic fundamentalism, the rise of al-Qaeda, and the intelligence failures that culminated in the attacks...
Polity, 2022. — 224 p. It has become axiomatic to contend that U.S. foreign policy must adapt to an era of renewed “great-power competition.” The United States went on a quarter-century strategic detour after the Cold War, the argument goes, basking in triumphalism and getting bogged down in the Middle East. Now China and Russia are increasingly challenging its influence and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 170 p. This book provides a novel account of the role of human rights discourse in the US foreign policy. The book analyses the US State Department’s Annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices as a means to monopolise and, more importantly, legitimise a specific framing of the human rights agenda to further US foreign policy. The US agenda’s...
Praeger, 2010. — 244 p. Written by a combat veteran who also served on the faculty of the Naval War College, Waging War to Make Peace: U.S. Intervention in Global Conflicts is a thought-provoking analysis of the decision to make war in the modern world. The subject is examined through the lens of the decision-making of four NATO nations—Britain, France, Germany, and the United...
Yale University Press, 1967. — 370 p. The Admiral in Politics: Stephen B. Luce and the Foundation of the Modern American Navy. Tarty Politics and Foreign Policy: Grover Cleveland's First Administration, 1885—1889. The Challenge of Latin America: Harrison and Blaine, 1889—1892. An Administration in Search of a Policy: Hawaii and Latin America, 1893—1899. The Diplomat as...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 250 p. This book tackles the pressing need to expand the vision of strategic US public diplomacy. It explores the interplay of power politics, culture, identity, and communication and explains how the underlying communication and political dynamics have redefined what 'strategic communication' means in today's international arena. R.S. Zaharna has...
Routledge, 2021. — 238 p. This study examines the important political and economic developments in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia since the Communist victories in 1975 and analyzes the critical policy issues facing the Carter administration in dealing with these states. Summarizing the major options immediately available to U.S. policymakers who confronted the new regimes.
Москва : Изд-во вост. лит., 1963. — 97 с. В 1963 году была опубликована работа Абдуллаева 3.3.«Начало экспансии США в Иране» (М., 1963), посвященная первому этапу экономического и политического проникновения США в Иран, соперничеству английских и американских монополий и реакции иранских политических деятелей на вмешательство во внутриполитическую жизнь Ирана.
М.: Политиздат, 1972. — 120 с. Брошюра рассказывает об агрессивных планах США в отношении стран Индокитая и о крахе их экспансионистской политики в этом районе. Автор показывает, как, увязнув в Джунглях Южного Вьетнама и не добившись успеха в воздушной войне против ДРВ, военщина США бросается в новые авантюры, распространяя агрессию на соседние страны: пылают города и села...
Перевод с английского Г. Дубской. — М.: Иностранная литература, 1949. — 96 с. Marshall plan - recovery or war? Брошюра Джеймса Аллена, написанная в апреле 1948 г., посвящена одному из наиболее актуальных вопросов современной международной политики - так называемому «плану Маршалла», при помощи которого американский монополистический капитал пытается овладеть экономикой...
М.: Иностранная литература, 1949. — 96 с. Marshall plan - recovery or war? Брошюра Джеймса Аллена, написанная в апреле 1948 г., посвящена одному из наиболее актуальных вопросов современной международной политики - так называемому «плану Маршалла», при помощи которого американский монополистический капитал пытается овладеть экономикой европейских стран, сколотить блок...
Перевод с английского. — М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1952. — 356 с. От издательства. Введение. Государственный контроль. Новая отрасль военной промышленности. Структура верховного контроля. Контроль через комитеты. Контракты как средство контроля. Новая форма делового товарищества. Атомная энергия в руках монополий. Морган и Дюпон. Конфликт в Окридже. От реакторов...
Перевод с английского. — М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1952. — 356 с. От издательства. Введение. Государственный контроль. Новая отрасль военной промышленности. Структура верховного контроля. Контроль через комитеты. Контракты как средство контроля. Новая форма делового товарищества. Атомная энергия в руках монополий. Морган и Дюпон. Конфликт в Окридже. От реакторов...
М.: Мысль, 1981. — 293 с. В монографии анализируется одна из самых старых и устойчивых внешнеполитических концепций США — панамериканизм. Прослеживая общую эволюцию панамериканизма на различных исторических этапах, автор анализирует основные положения этой идеологии — геополитические концепции, расовые теории, идеи «духовной общности» американских стран, концепции экономической...
М.: Мысль, 1981. — 293 с. В монографии анализируется одна из самых старых и устойчивых внешнеполитических концепций США — панамериканизм. Прослеживая общую эволюцию панамериканизма на различных исторических этапах, автор анализирует основные положения этой идеологии — геополитические концепции, расовые теории, идеи «духовной общности» американских стран, концепции экономической...
М.: Объединенное гуманитарное издательство (ОГИ), 2011. — ISBN: 978-5-94282-637-6. В монографии анализируются новейшие военно-политические установки администрации Б. Обамы и блока НАТО, отраженные в принятых в 2010-2011 годах Стратегии национальной безопасности, Ядерной доктрине, Национальной военной стратегии США, Стратегической концепции НАТО и других документах, а также в...
М.: Международные отношения, 1985. — 272 с. — (Критика буржуазной идеологии и ревизионизма). В книге рассмотрены теория и практика современной идеологической стратегии империализма США на мировой арене. Основное внимание уделено критическому разбору идеологических концепций, обосновывающих отход Вашингтона от политики разрядки в направлении конфронтации и психологической войны....
М.: Международные отношения, 1985. — 233 с. — (Критика буржуазной идеологии и ревизионизма). В книге рассмотрены теория и практика современной идеологической стратегии империализма США на мировой арене. Основное внимание уделено критическому разбору идеологических концепций, обосновывающих отход Вашингтона от политики разрядки в направлении конфронтации и психологической войны....
М.: Институт международных отношений, 1961. — 208 с. Изучение позиции правящих кругов США в период мюнхенского кризиса и выяснение действительной роли американской дипломатии в подготовке мюнхенского сговора с фашистскими агрессорами, а также разоблачение лживых высказываний по этому вопросу современных буржуазных историков и государственных деятелей представляет не только большой...
М.: Институт международных отношений, 1961. — 208 с. Изучение позиции правящих кругов США в период мюнхенского кризиса и выяснение действительной роли американской дипломатии в подготовке мюнхенского сговора с фашистскими агрессорами, а также разоблачение лживых высказываний по этому вопросу современных буржуазных историков и государственных деятелей представляет не только большой...
Вступ. статья А. С. Белоконя. Пер. с чешск. Р. П. Разумовой. — М.: Изд-во иностранной литературы, 1949. — 112 с. Вступительная статья. Экономический кризис в Соединенных Штатах. Что означает „план Маршалла“ и кто его поддерживает. „Новый империализм“. „План восстановления Европы" и Германия. „План Маршалла“ и частные капиталовложения. „План восстановления Европы“ и социализм....
М.: Весь Мир, 2016. — 176 с. В предлагаемой читателю книге автор на основе многочисленных документов анализирует внешнеполитическую теорию американских неоконсерваторов, наиболее агрессивной части американской политической элиты. Американская исключительность, вера в особую миссию, ставка в мировых делах на силу и «экспорт демократии» – причины, объясняющие агрессивный характер...
Перевод с английского Л. Яковлева. — М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1953. — 143 с. Книга прогрессивного английского публициста Филипа Болсовера представляет собой критический разбор американской политики в отношении Англии. Анализируя существующие отношения между Англией и США, автор приходит к выводу, что Англия в политическом и экономическом отношении попадает все в...
М.: Издательство ИМО, 1959. — 336 с. Монография посвящена исследованию происхождения и характера доктрины Монро (1823 г.), с помощью которой агрессивные круги США и поныне стремятся оправдать свою экспансионистскую политику в отношении стран Западного полушария. Автор пересматривает установившуюся в буржуазной литературе точку зрения об оборонительном и освободительном...
М.: Наука, 1968. — 244 с. В книге рассматривается дальневосточная политика США между русско-японской и первой мировой войнами, дается анализ русско-американских отношений в этот период. Автор показывает формы и методы дальневосточной экспансии США. Много внимания он уделяет освещению американских проектов интернационализации маньчжурских железных дорог, маневрам США в связи с...
М.: Наука, 1968. — 247 с. В книге рассматривается дальневосточная политика США между русско-японской и первой мировой войнами, дается анализ русско-американских отношений в этот период. Автор показывает формы и методы дальневосточной экспансии США. Много внимания он уделяет освещению американских проектов интернационализации маньчжурских железных дорог, маневрам США в связи с...
М.: Советская Россия, 1984. — 111 с. — (По ту сторону).
В этой книге речь идет о зигзагах внешней политики США после второй мировой войны — от Ялты и Потсдама до настоящего момента. В форме диалогов воспроизводятся драматические события периода карибского кризиса, позиция президента Дж. Кеннеди, которая в конечном счете привела его к гибели; беседа с прогрессивным американским...
М.: Советская Россия, 1984. — 111 с. — (По ту сторону). В этой книге речь идет о зигзагах внешней политики США после второй мировой войны — от Ялты и Потсдама до настоящего момента. В форме диалогов воспроизводятся драматические события периода карибского кризиса, позиция президента Дж. Кеннеди, которая в конечном счете привела его к гибели; беседа с прогрессивным американским...
Научное издание. – Томск: Издательский дом Томского государственного университета, 2014. – 148 с. – ISBN: 978-5-94621-378-3. В данной работе рассматривается политика нейтралитета, проводимая Соединенными Штатами Америки накануне Второй мировой войны. Нейтральная позиция США по отношению к странам-агрессорам и их жертвам сыграла определенную роль в начале Второй мировой войны....
М.: Арктика 4Д, 2008. — 352 с. — ISBN 978-5-902835-05-9. Под общей редакцией полковника запаса ГШ Вооруженных Сил Российской Федерации А. В. Мусиенко. Развитие современных систем обычных вооружений оказало решающее воздействие на тактику и стратегию войск США и их союзников по НАТО в войнах последних 15 лет. Задача книги – привлечь внимание русского читателя к незамеченным в...
М.: Агентства печати Новости, 1987. — 102 с.
Коллективный труд журналистов-международников АПН рассказывает в самый разгар расследования скандала «Иран-контрас» об основных этапах и составных частях этой крупнейшей международной махинации администрации Рейгана.
М.: Изд-во Агентства печати Новости, 1987. — 104 с. — ISBN: 5-7020-0012-9. Коллективный труд журналистов-международников АПН рассказывает в самый разгар расследования скандала «Иран-контрас» об основных этапах и составных частях этой крупнейшей международной махинации администрации Рейгана. Книга рассчитана на широкий круг читателей. От «Аякса» до «Ирангейта». Загадочные гости....
М.: Международные отношения, 1971. — 239 с. В книге раскрываются причины и история возникновения так называемого добровольческого корпуса США, раскинувшего свои сети в 60 странах Азии, Африки и Латинской Америки; разоблачаются истинные цели и программы новоявленных миссионеров, способствующие созданию в этих странах психологической атмосферы и социальной опоры для осуществления...
Перевод с английского И.Е. Киселёвой, Н.К. Матвеева и С.А. Панафидина. — М.: Издательство ИМО, 1960. — 208 с. Вступительная статья. Введение. История и современный кризис. Имперский антиколониализм. Империализм идеализма. Нарастающий прилив революции. Легенда об изоляционизме. Великий спор по тактическим вопросам расширения империи. Интернационализация бизнеса. Война за...
Научное издание. — Томск: Издательство Томского университета, 2009. — 280 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7511-1917-1. В работе исследуются проблемы, связанные с формированием военно-политического блока НАТО и укреплением оборонного потенциала европейских членов Североатлантического альянса в 1947–1955 гг. Основное внимание уделяется принятой одновременно с созданием НАТО американской...
Монография. — Томск: Изд-во Том. ун-та, 2009. — 280 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7511-1917-1. В работе исследуются проблемы, связанные с формированием военно-политического блока НАТО и укреплением оборонного потенциала европейских членов Североатлантического альянса в 1947–1955 гг. Основное внимание уделяется принятой одновременно с созданием НАТО американской программе военной помощи...
Владивосток: Изд-во ВГУЭС, 2004. — 152 с. Представлены основные темы курса “Международные отношения и внешняя политика США и Канады”. Включен анализ основных направлений американской внешней политики в 1990 е гг. и в первое десятилетие XXI века, рассмотрены взаимодействие США и России на межгосударственном и региональном уровнях, тихоокеанская политика Америки, стратегия США в...
М.: Соцэкономиздат, 1962. — 246 с. Вскоре после начала первой мировой войны посол США в Лондоне У. Пэйдж писал: «...через десять лет будет трудно вспомнить, какой была Европа за предыдущее десятилетие. И тогда все будущее мира' окажется в наших руках». Подобные расчеты строили многие государственные деятели и представители монополистического капитала США. Правящие круги США...
М.: Соцэкономиздат, 1962. — 244 с. Вскоре после начала первой мировой войны посол США в Лондоне У. Пэйдж писал: «...через десять лет будет трудно вспомнить, какой была Европа за предыдущее десятилетие. И тогда все будущее мира' окажется в наших руках». Подобные расчеты строили многие государственные деятели и представители монополистического капитала США. Правящие круги США...
Перевод с немецкого В.М. Валькова, В.В. Чернышёва, Э.Ф. Шмидта. — М.: Международные отношения, 1986. — 176 с. В книге западногерманского исследователя показана эволюция поворотов внешней политики США в отношении СССР, стран социалистического содружества от „холодной войны” через „потепление” и разрядку к новой конфронтации в 80-х годах. Анализируются причины этих поворотов и...
М.: Политиздат, 1968. — 279 с.: ил. — (Запад наших дней). Книга посвящена внешней политике правительства Кеннеди; вместе с тем автор рисует картину сложной и противоречивой политической жизни Америки 60-х годов, показывает, как и кем формируется внешнеполитический курс США, анализирует причины роста его агрессивности и авантюризма. Предисловие. Конец пути. Дорога в Белый дом....
М.: Международные отношения, 1978. — 316 с. В монографии показано противоборство различных тенденций в американской политической жизни, особенно в периоды правления демократов от Кеннеди до Картера. Анализируются процесс формирования внешнеполитических концепций, стратегия и тактика американской администрации по ряду ключевых вопросов мировой политики в 60—70-х годах. Обобщив, в...
М.: Международные отношения, 1971. — 350 с. Бор. Дмитриев — автор ряда работ о Соединенных Штатах Америки. В данной своей книге он прослеживает эволюцию внешнеполитических и стратегических концепций США от первых послевоенных лет до настоящего времени. В монографии анализируются факторы формирования американской внешней политики, явные и скрытые силы, определяющие ее главные...
М.: ИСПИ РАН, 2014. — 319 с. Вступление Философия и дипломатия Кеннана – начало пути Россия как судьба? Сначала не признавать, потом вредить Кеннан и война Кеннан и зарождение «холодной войны»: звездный час дипломата? Посол в Москве Погорелец Кеннан и «охота на ведьм» Принстон: другая жизнь, другой Кеннан «Последнее прости» дипломатической работе Вторая жизнь Кеннана: наука...
М.: Наука, 1988. — 180 с. Каким образом психологические факторы влияют и принятие внешнеполитических решений? Значительно внимание уделяется такого рода исследованиям в США В книге критически рассматриваются работы американских политических психологов, анализируются их теоретические и методологические основы, «модели» поведения различных американских администрации, их действия...
М.: Наука, 1988. — 180 с. Каким образом психологические факторы влияют и принятие внешнеполитических решений? Значительно внимание уделяется такого рода исследованиям в США В книге критически рассматриваются работы американских политических психологов, анализируются их теоретические и методологические основы, «модели» поведения различных американских администрации, их действия...
М.: Наука, 1988. — 180 с. Каким образом психологические факторы влияют и принятие внешнеполитических решений? Значительно внимание уделяется такого рода исследованиям в США В книге критически рассматриваются работы американских политических психологов, анализируются их теоретические и методологические основы, «модели» поведения различных американских администрации, их действия...
М.: Прогресс, 1982. — 286 с.: ил. Предисловие. Политика кризисов и кризисы политики. Из выступления товарища Гэса Холла, Генерального секретаря Коммунистической партии США на XXVI съезде КПСС. Гэс Холл. Отказаться от мифов, посмотреть в лицо действительности. Главная политическая резолюция XXII съезда Коммунистической партии США. Уолтер Лафибер. Империя начинается дома. Роберт...
Учебное пособие: В 2 ч. – Ч. 1 – Калининград, 2000. – 100 с. Пособие призвано дать студентам-историкам пред-ставление о характере и содержании внешней полити-ки США в XX веке, раскрыть формы и методы борьбы американских правительств за установление мировой гегемонии. Основное место в пособии отводится раз-нообразным документальным материалам с коммента-риями автора, что должно...
М.;Л.: Изд-во Академии Наук СССР, 1948. — 523 с. Из предисловия: Настоящая работа посвящена изучению империалистической политики США в странах Карибского бассейна в период 1900—1939 гг. Карибское море и Мексиканский залив за последние пять десятилетий, и особенно после постройки Панамского канала, превратились в один из самых важных путей мировой торговли. Страны же, окаймляющие...
Москва: Наука, 1969. — 471 с. Научная требовательность, добросовестность и крайняя тщательность автора книги в труде предопределили известную медленность в публикации им своих работ по истории Америки. За долгие годы занятий американской историей Л. И. Зубок выпустил три большие книги: "Империалистическая политика США в странах Караибского бассейна" (1948 г.), "Очерки истории США...
Москва: Наука, 1969. — 471 с. Научная требовательность, добросовестность и крайняя тщательность автора книги в труде предопределили известную медленность в публикации им своих работ по истории Америки. За долгие годы занятий американской историей Л. И. Зубок выпустил три большие книги: "Империалистическая политика США в странах Караибского бассейна" (1948 г.), "Очерки истории США...
М.: Наука, 1982. — 218 с. В монографии определяется место высшего законодательного органа США среди других органов государственной власти, участвующих в выработке внешнеполитического курса, анализируются политические факторы, влияние которых сказывается на его позициях в этой области, рассматриваются причины значительной активизации внешнеполитической деятельности конгресса в...
М.: Наука, 1982. — 218 с. В монографии определяется место высшего законодательного органа США среди других органов государственной власти, участвующих в выработке внешнеполитического курса, анализируются политические факторы, влияние которых сказывается на его позициях в этой области, рассматриваются причины значительной активизации внешнеполитической деятельности конгресса в...
М.: Госполитиздат, 1960. — 762 с.
Книга Н.Н. Иноземцева — первая советская монография, в которой исследуются основные моменты истории внешней политики США за весь период монополистического капитализма. Автор рассматривает важнейшие направления, характер и особенности этой политики, вскрывая ее неразрывную связь с экономикой и расстановкой классовых сил в стране и в...
Политика США в Австрии после Второй мировой войны не была в центре изучения отечественных исследователей, однако сквозь призму решения австрийского вопроса можно глубже понять иерархию интересов «большой тройки» и истоки формирования биполярного мира, а также проследить эволюцию внешнеполитической позиции США в отношении
не только Австрии, но и Европы в целом в условиях холодной...
Журнал, 2006 год, издат-во Государственного департамента США, 51 стр. Этот выпуск «Э-Журнала США: Внешняя политика», посвященный ряду ключевых исторических событий, дает основу для анализа эволюции международных отношений США за прошедшее столетие, которые развивались под влиянием наследия основополагающих американских идеалов — защиты личных прав и свободы.
Нью-Йорк: из-во им. Чехова, 1956. — 155 с. Джордж Фрост Кеннан – не путать с его двоюродным дедом Джорджем Кеннаном, путешественником по Сибири – очень влиятельный и проницательный дипломат, убежденный антикоммунист. Большую часть своей жизни так или иначе связанный с Россией, Кеннан работал в довоенном СССР, потом был послом США в Москве в 1952 – 53 годах и был отозван по...
М.: Международные отношения, 1986. — 64 с.
Для американского политического процесса деятельность «мозговых трестов» — наиболее влиятельных политологических центров США — стала постоянным и важным фактором. О том, как происходило становление института «мозговых трестов» в США, какова их взаимосвязь с правящим классом и политическим руководством Америки, наконец, каков механизм...
М.: Международные отношения, 1985. — 305 с. Работа посвящена анализу основных изменений международных позиций США за последнее десятилетие. Автор рассматривает причины резкого поворота в политике США в отношении СССР, социалистических и развивающихся стран в 80-е годы, а также особенности перемен в отношениях США с Западной Европой и Японией. Впервые в советской литературе...
М.: Международные отношения, 1984. — 304 с. Работа посвящена анализу основных изменений международных, позиций США за последнее десятилетие. Автор рассматривает причины резкого поворота в политике США в отношении СССР, социалистических и развивающихся стран в 80-е годы, а также особенности перемен в отношениях США с Западной Европой и Японией. Впервые в советской литературе...
М.: Воениздат, 1973. — 304 с. В книге рассказывается о роли и месте милитаризма США в войнах, которые вело это государство с момента его создания и до наших дней. На большом историческом материале книга разоблачает буржуазный тезис о «миролюбии» американского милитаризма. Данное издание рассчитано на широкий круг читателей. Предисловие. На военной тропе. Американский...
М.: Политиздат, 1986. — 175 с. В работе ученых-международников разоблачаются империалистическая политика США в отношении освободившихся стран, старые и новые методы колониализма, экономическая экспансия, подрывные действия западных спецслужб, открытое вооруженное вмешательство. Книга рассчитана на пропагандистов, агитаторов и широкий круг читателей, интересующихся проблемами...
М.: Наука, 1977. — 272 с. В книге исследуются основные особенности политики США в отношении стран Азии в 60—70-х годах. Раскрывается непосредственная связь этой политики с глобальной стратегией США, характеризуются источники ее формирования, цели и средства. Важное место отводится анализу региональных направлений американской политики в Азии: в Японии, Индокитае, Южной Азии и...
М.: Международные отношения, 1970. — 355 с. В книге рассматривается внешняя политика США во время второй мировой войны. Автор анализирует ход и содержание переговоров США и Англии, США и СССР в 1941—1945 годах, американскую позицию на конференциях руководителей стран антигитлеровской коалиции в Тегеране, Ялте и Потсдаме. Показано, в чем состоял подлинный, реальный вклад США в...
М.: Международные отношения, 1970. — 355 с. В книге рассматривается внешняя политика США во время второй мировой войны. Автор анализирует ход и содержание переговоров США и Англии, США и СССР в 1941—1945 годах, американскую позицию на конференциях руководителей стран антигитлеровской коалиции в Тегеране, Ялте и Потсдаме. Показано, в чем состоял подлинный, реальный вклад США в...
Сборник документов. Б.м.: Б. изд., 2017. – 1004 с. В Электронном издании «Администрация Д. Трампа. Внешняя политика. Сборник документов» представлены важнейшие документы, отражающие отдельные направления внешнеполитического курса администрации Д. Трампа (с 2017 г.). Представлена подборка документов, связанных с действиями администрации Д. Трампа в сфере внешней политики США в...
Учебное пособие. — Благовещенск: Изд-во БГПУ, 2010. — 430 с. В учебном пособии в исторической ретроспективе рассматриваются ключевые вопросы, связанные с проблемой использования военной силы во внешней политике США. Учебное пособие, материалы которого помогут составить более целостное представление о деятельности США, осуществляемой на международной арене, в том числе и на...
СПб.: Нестор-История, 2016. — 752 с. — ISBN: 978-5-4469-0899-8. В монографии на примере конкретных ситуаций, имевших место в течение 1973-2009 гг. и отражающих вовлечённость США в отдельные региональные кризисы, связанные с использованием (применением или угрозой применения) военной силы и относящиеся к периоду президентства Дж. Форда, 1974-1977 гг. (Камбоджа, 1975 г.), Дж....
М.: Госполитиздат, 1957. — 80 с. Экспансия под флагом «помощи». Нефть и стратегия. От провокации суэцкого конфликта к «доктрине Эйзенхауэра». «Доктрина Эйзенхауэра» — орудие агрессии.
Монография. — Волгоград: Издательство ВолГУ, 1997. — 192 с. — ISBN: 5-85534-118-6. В монографии анализируется внешнеполитическая деятельность одного из ведущих американских политиков первой половины XIX века Дэниела Уэбстера. Территориальная экспансия определяла основную внешнеполитическую "повестку дня" Соединённых Штатов 1840-х годов. Именно Уэбстер заложил основы внешней...
М.: Воениздат, 1962. — 384 с. Книга рассказывает о действиях военно-морских сил США и их союзников во время агрессии в Корее в 1950–1953 гг. В книге подробно излагаются подготовка и проведение морских десантных операции, организация взаимодействия между сухопутными войсками, военно-воздушными и военно-морскими силами США, вопросы противоминной обороны и некоторые моменты...
М. : Издательство АПН, 1984. — 288 с. : ил. Анализируя военную политику США в 40—80-е годы, автор показывает ее агрессивную направленность, вскрывает характер взаимозависимости между разработкой новых систем оружия и внешнеполитическими установками американских администраций. Выявляются подспудные мотивы участия США в переговорах с Советским Союзом об ограничении вооружений,...
М. : Издательство АПН, 1984. — 288 с. : ил. Анализируя военную политику США в 40—80-е годы, автор показывает ее агрессивную направленность, вскрывает характер взаимозависимости между разработкой новых систем оружия и внешнеполитическими установками американских администраций. Выявляются подспудные мотивы участия США в переговорах с Советским Союзом об ограничении вооружений,...
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В монографии раскрывается роль и место изоляционизма во внутриполитической жизни США. Делается попытка выявить соотношение империалистического изоляционизма и вильсонизма, с одной стороны, и демократического изоляционизма и антивоенного движения — с другой. Показано, как основные принципы изоляционизма обнаруживались в ходе конкретно-политической...
М.: : МГУ, 1980. — 226 с.
В монографии раскрывается роль и место изоляционизма во внутриполитической жизни США. Делается попытка выявить соотношение империалистического изоляционизма и вильсонизма, с одной стороны, и демократического изоляционизма и антивоенного движения — с другой. Показано, как основные принципы изоляционизма обнаруживались в ходе конкретно-политической...
М.: Наука, 1970. — 495 с. Работа Ю. М. Мельникова «Внешнеполитические доктрины. США» посвящена исследованию идейно-теоретических основ и процессу формирования современной американской политики, а также тесно связанной с ней военной стратегии и пропаганды. Основное внимание автора при этом концентрируется на внешнеполитической программе «Новых рубежей» президента Д. Ф. Кеннеди....
М.: Наука, 1970. — 495 с. Работа Ю. М. Мельникова «Внешнеполитические доктрины. США» посвящена исследованию идейно-теоретических основ и процессу формирования современной американской политики, а также тесно связанной с ней военной стратегии и пропаганды. Основное внимание автора при этом концентрируется на внешнеполитической программе «Новых рубежей» президента Д. Ф. Кеннеди....
М.: Международные отношения, 1984. — 256 с. В книге рассмотрены исторические истоки имперской политики и идеологии США, разоблачается агрессивный курс американского империализма второй половины 70 — начала 80-х годов. Убедительно показано, что именно авантюристическая гегемонистская политика Вашингтона привела к резкому обострению международной обстановки. Подчеркивается, что...
М.: Международные отношения, 1984. — 256 с. В книге рассмотрены исторические истоки имперской политики и идеологии США, разоблачается агрессивный курс американского империализма второй половины 70 — начала 80-х годов. Убедительно показано, что именно авантюристическая гегемонистская политика Вашингтона привела к резкому обострению международной обстановки. Подчеркивается, что...
М.: Политиздат, 1974.-367с.
Доктор исторических наук Юрий Михайлович Мельников прослеживает действия американской дипломатии США в узловых проблемах и "горячих" точках с момента окончания второй мировой войны и до 70-х годов XX века.
М.: Политиздат, 1983. — 368 с. Доктор исторических наук Ю. М. Мельников, привлекая малоизвестные документальные и архивные материалы, анализирует сущность, методы и особенности внешней политики США. Подробно характеризуются американские внешнеполитические доктрины — от «сдерживания» и «отбрасывания» до «ограниченной» и «затяжной» ядерной войны. В книге говорится также о...
М.: Политиздат, 1983. — 368 с. Доктор исторических наук Ю. М. Мельников, привлекая малоизвестные документальные и архивные материалы, анализирует сущность, методы и особенности внешней политики США. Подробно характеризуются американские внешнеполитические доктрины — от «сдерживания» и «отбрасывания» до «ограниченной» и «затяжной» ядерной войны. В книге говорится также о...
М.: Наука, 1976. — 410 с. На фоне анализа социально-экономических условий и классовой структуры развивающихся стран показаны факторы, позволившие вооруженным силам этих стран активно выйти на политическую арену. Рассмотрены конкретные причины, вызвавшие недовольство различных слоев общества режимами, образовавшимися после ликвидации колониального господства в Египте, Сирии,...
М.: Наука, 1976. — 410 с. На фоне анализа социально-экономических условий и классовой структуры развивающихся стран показаны факторы, позволившие вооруженным силам этих стран активно выйти на политическую арену. Рассмотрены конкретные причины, вызвавшие недовольство различных слоев общества режимами, образовавшимися после ликвидации колониального господства в Египте, Сирии,...
Перевод с английского Н. Кузьминского. — М.: Издательство Иностранной литературы, 1953. — 279 с. Вступительная статья. Предисловие к иностранному изданию. Введение. Индийско-американские отношения до второй мировой войны. Индийско-американские отношения во время мировой войны. Индийско-американская торговля после второй мировой войны. Американский капитал требует «открытых...
Перевод с английского Н. Кузьминского. — М.: Издательство Иностранной литературы, 1953. — 279 с. Вступительная статья. Предисловие к иностранному изданию. Введение. Индийско-американские отношения до второй мировой войны. Индийско-американские отношения во время мировой войны. Индийско-американская торговля после второй мировой войны. Американский капитал требует «открытых...
20 стр. Оглавление
Введение
Внешняя политика США во время Президента Дж. Буша-Младшего
Неоконсерватизм во внешней политике США
Внешняя политика США в настоящее время
Заключение
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М.: Воениздат, 1960. — 386 с. В книге «Ограниченная война» доцент Чикагского университета Осгуд основное внимание уделяет теории так называемой ограниченной войны, получившей в последнее время широкое распространение среди военных , и политических деятелей Запада. Автор дает определение ограниченных войн, «обосновывает» их значение для Соединенных Штатов, излагает американские...
М.: Госпланиздат, 1950. — 493 с. Соединенные Штаты Америки стоят во главе империалистического лагеря, являются оплотом агрессивных, реакционных и антидемократических сил во всем мире и центром борьбы против лагеря мира, демократии и социализма. Американские империалисты всеми средствами пытаются отравить сознание трудящихся масс в капиталистических странах ядом «американизма»,...
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Институт США и Канады. — М.: Наука, 1987. — 209 с. В книге рассматриваются — главным образом на материалах 1976—1983 гг.— основные направления американской буржуазной политологии и историографии (консервативное, либеральное, мелкобуржуазно-радикальное), оценка их представителями внешней политики США и перспектив ее развития. Охарактеризована социальная база указанных...
Институт США и Канады. — М.: Наука, 1987. — 209 с. В книге рассматриваются — главным образом на материалах 1976—1983 гг.— основные направления американской буржуазной политологии и историографии (консервативное, либеральное, мелкобуржуазно-радикальное), оценка их представителями внешней политики США и перспектив ее развития. Охарактеризована социальная база указанных...
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АН УССР. Ин-т социал. и экон. пробл. зарубеж. стран; Отв. ред. Л.А. Лещенко. — Киев: Наукова думка, 1991. — 140 с. Введение. Восточная Европа и проблемы генезиса "Холодной войны”. Американская дипломатия в Польше. Реакция США На политическое развитие стран - бывших союзниц Германии. Дипломатия США в Чехословакии. "Новая югославская" политика Вашингтона. Государственный...
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М.: Международные отношения, 1983. — 146 с.
В работе разоблачается лицемерный характер ведущейся США кампании «в защиту прав человека». Автор раскрывает ее антисоциалистическую направленность, убедительно, на конкретных примерах показывая, что именно в США, а не в странах социализма систематически попираются и ущемляются права человека.
М.: Международные отношения, 1983. — 146 с. В работе разоблачается лицемерный характер ведущейся США кампании «в защиту прав человека». Автор раскрывает ее антисоциалистическую направленность, убедительно, на конкретных примерах показывая, что именно в США, а не в странах социализма систематически попираются и ущемляются права человека.
Москва: Наука, 1972. — 404 с. В книге анализируется американская литература, посвященная политике США в послевоенные годы, рассматриваются различные школы и направления в историографии, вскрываются их социально-классовые основы, показывается борьба течений, прослеживается эволюция взглядов историков и международников в связи с происходящими переменами и изменениями в...
М.: Наука, 1986. — 611 с. В коллективном труде дан анализ движущих сил и идеологии экспансионизма США в различных регионах: в Западной и Восточной Европе, Латинской Америке, на Ближнем и Среднем Востоке, в Индийском океане и Африке. Рассматривается сущность ряда идеологических концепций американского экспансионизма, внешнеполитических и военных доктрин, уделяется внимание...
М.: Наука, 1985. — 341 с. На основе обширного документального и фактического материала анализируются истоки, движущие силы и идеология американского экспансионизма, раскрывается взаимосвязь внутренней и внешней политики США в XIX в. и в период вступления Соединенных Штатов в эпоху империализма. Изложена история приобретения Соединенными Штатами Луизианы, Аляски, аннексии...
М.: Наука, 1972. — 403 с.
В книге анализируется американская литература, посвященная политике США в послевоенные годы, рассматриваются различные школы и направления в историографии, вскрываются их социально-классовые основы, показывается борьба течений, прослеживается эволюция взглядов историков и международников в связи с происходящими переменами и изменениями в расстановке и...
Перевод с английского В.М. Синельникова. — М.: Прогресс, 1975. — 342 с. Книга представляет собой краткий обзор отношений США с Африкой, начиная с 1950-х годов и до начала 1970-х годов. Автор рассматривает Африканский континент как органическую часть мирового развития и касается в своем исследовании главных проблем, делая упор на основные политические цели и действия правящих...
М.: Наука, 1984. — 466 с. В настоящей монографии впервые в советской исторической науке осуществлено комплексное исследование внешней политики крупнейшей империалистической державы современности — Соединенных Штатов Америки за период после окончания второй мировой войны до начала 80-х годов. В ней дан анализ общей стратегии американского империализма, его внешнеполитических...
М.: Наука, 1984. — 482 с. В настоящей монографии впервые в советской исторической науке осуществлено комплексное исследование внешней политики крупнейшей империалистической державы современности — Соединенных Штатов Америки за период после окончания второй мировой войны до начала 80-х годов. В ней дан анализ общей стратегии американского империализма, его внешнеполитических...
М.: Наука, 1986. — 210 с. Настоящая работа представляет собой комплексное исследование механизма формирования внешнеполитического курса США — многоплановой темы, связанной с анализом проблем принятия и осуществления внешнеполитических решений. Всесторонне рассмотрена роль президента и его аппарата. Особое внимание уделяется такой важной, актуальной и характерной именно для...
М.: Наука, 1986. — 210 с. Настоящая работа представляет собой комплексное исследование механизма формирования внешнеполитического курса США — многоплановой темы, связанной с анализом проблем принятия и осуществления внешнеполитических решений. Всесторонне рассмотрена роль президента и его аппарата. Особое внимание уделяется такой важной, актуальной и характерной именно для...
М.: Наука. Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1971. — 444 с. В книге исследуется решающий этап «американизации» Гавайев (превращение архипелага в главную базу американских китобоев на Тихом океане, обращение островитян в христианство, грабительские «аграрные реформы», расчистившие путь американским плантаторам). Книга основана на первоисточниках— архивных материалах,...
М.: Наука. Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1971. — 444 с. В книге исследуется решающий этап «американизации» Гавайев (превращение архипелага в главную базу американских китобоев на Тихом океане, обращение островитян в христианство, грабительские «аграрные реформы», расчистившие путь американским плантаторам). Книга основана на первоисточниках— архивных материалах,...
М.: Международные отношения, 1989. — 322 с. — (Из истории дипломатии). — ISBN 5-7133-0070-6. Внешнеполитическая деятельность президента В. Вильсона (1912—1920 гг.) — одна из интереснейших страниц мировой дипломатии. Читатель становится свидетелем сложной дипломатической игры, в которой Вильсон, стремясь достичь для Соединенных Штатов мировой гегемонии, толкает страну к участию в...
М.: Международные отношения, 1989. — 322 с. — (Из истории дипломатии). — ISBN: 5-7133-0070-6. Внешнеполитическая деятельность президента В. Вильсона (1912—1920 гг.) — одна из интереснейших страниц мировой дипломатии. Читатель становится свидетелем сложной дипломатической игры, в которой Вильсон, стремясь достичь для Соединенных Штатов мировой гегемонии, толкает страну к участию...
Свердловск: Издательство Уральского университета, 1990. — 544 с. В монографии на основе многочисленных документальных и мемуарных материалов исследуется критический период американской истории - переход от изоляционизма 1930-х годов к глобальной вовлеченности, характерной для современной Америки. В центре повествования - крупнейший политический лидер США в XX веке - президент...
Свердловск: Издательство Уральского университета, 1990. — 544 с. В монографии на основе многочисленных документальных и мемуарных материалов исследуется критический период американской истории - переход от изоляционизма 1930-х годов к глобальной вовлеченности, характерной для современной Америки. В центре повествования - крупнейший политический лидер США в XX веке - президент...
Свердловск: Издательство Уральского университета, 1990. — 544 с. — ISBN: 5-7525-0090-7. В монографии на основе многочисленных документальных и мемуарных материалов исследуется критический период американской истории - переход от изоляционизма 30-х годов к глобальной вовлеченности, характерной для современной Америки. В центре повествования - крупнейший политический лидер США в...
Свердловск: Издательство Уральского университета, 1990. — 544 с. — ISBN: 5-7525-0090-7. В монографии на основе многочисленных документальных и мемуарных материалов исследуется критический период американской истории - переход от изоляционизма 30-х годов к глобальной вовлеченности, характерной для современной Америки. В центре повествования - крупнейший политический лидер США в...
Монография. — М.: РУДН, 2010. — 212 с. В книге акцентируется внимание на культурологическом аспекте«мягкой силы» США, а именно– на одном из ее ключевых компонентов– на внешней культурной политике. Автор предлагает рассматривать реализацию внешней культурной политики США в двух направлениях– официальном и так называемом неофициальном. Освещается история культурной политики США,...
М.: Издательство иностранной книги, 1956. - 334 с.
Основным содержанием книги является обоснование необходимости для Соединённых Штатов иметь подавляющее превосходство в "Воздушно-атомной мощи", чтобы обеспечить господство в воздухе и тем самым победу в случае войны с Советским Союзом. Одновременно автор книги доказывает важность обороны всех государств - членов...
Перевод с английского Н.И. Китина. — М.: Международные отношения, 1967. — 256 с. Американский сенатор о политике Белого дома. Предисловие. Введение. Самонадеянность силы. Стремление наций к силе. Простаки за границей. Роковое влияние. Американская империя или американский пример? Высший патриотизм. Гражданин и университет. Боязнь критики. Критика и единодушие. Движение протеста...
Очерк / Пер. с польск. Д. Г. Томашевского; Под ред. и с предисл. А. Е. Ефремова.— М.: Воениздат, 1982.— 175 с. Очерк содержит подробные данные о поставках Соединенных Штатов Америки оружия союзным странам с целью оказания влияния на их внутреннюю и внешнюю политику и вовлечения в антикоммунистический альянс. Книга содержит интересные данные о внешней политике американского...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 1054 с. — (Оксфордская история США). Введение редактора. Введение. "Начать мир заново". "Никто не может заставить нас бояться". "Очищенный, как огнем". "Оставьте остальное нам". Доза мышьяка. "Последняя надежда". "Достаточно хорошая Англия". Война 1898 года, новая империя и рассвет...
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Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 1054 с. — (Оксфордская история США). Введение редактора. Введение. "Начать мир заново". "Никто не может заставить нас бояться". "Очищенный, как огнем". "Оставьте остальное нам". Доза мышьяка. "Последняя надежда". "Достаточно хорошая Англия". Война 1898 года, новая империя и рассвет...
Перевод с английского А.А. Обухова. — М.: Прогресс, 1983. — 349 с. В книге «Рыба красного цвета» предпринята попытка дать хронику происков Центрального разведывательного управления, перед которым правящие круги США поставили задачу удушить Кубинскую революцию свойственными этому ведомству грязными методами. В результате была разработана широкомасштабная операция под кодовым...
М.: Мысль, 1984. — 271 с. — (Империализм: хроника преступлений). В книге рассказывается о необъявленных войнах США в так называемых горячих точках планеты — в Центральной и Южной Америке, в Африке, Азии и на Ближнем Востоке как одном из инструментов агрессивной военно-политической стратегии и глобальной политики Вашингтона. В книге разоблачаются американские идеологические,...
М.: Политиздат, 1985. — 351 с. «Отродьем дьявола» называют в Америке могущественный клан военно-промышленных концернов, неистово подстегивающих гонку ракетно-ядерных вооружений. Его влияние стало особенно ощутимым с воцарением в Вашингтоне администрации Рейгана. О крупнейших магнатах оружейного бизнеса и их союзниках в правительственно-политических сферах рассказывает эта...
Монография. — СПб.: Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет, 2006. — 200 с. В монографии исследуются особые образовательные программы, созданные правительством США для идеологического влияния на зарубежных граждан (политики, чиновники, государственные деятели, преподаватели, деятели искусства, студенты и т.д.), деятельность которых способствовала продвижению...
Саратов: Изд-во СНИГУ, 2018. — 272 с. В монографии рассматривается проблема формирования стратегии и политики американской помощи слаборазвитым странам в 1950-е гг. в контексте строительства нового мирового порядка и холодной войны. Особое внимание уделяется роли американских групп интересов и президента Д. Эйзенхауэра в процессе принятия внешнеполитических решений....
СПб.: СПбГУ, 2012. — 260 с. В монографии, подготовленной коллективом авторов кафедры американских исследовании факультета международных отношении СПбГУ, представлен анализ политики администрации Б. Обамы в Азиатско- Тихоокеанском регионе в 2009-2012 гг. В фокусе внимания авторов находятся политические, военные и экономические аспекты американского внешнеполитического курса на...
М.: Молодая гвардия, 1985. — 418 с. В книге анализируются истоки, доктрины и практические последствия имперских амбиций правящих кругов США, сделавших ставку на достижение мирового господства. На фактическом материале рассматриваются военные программы и планы правящей финансовой олигархии и механизм их политического и идеологического обеспечения. Предисловие. Внешняя политика...
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