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Book A Nation Like All Others

    Book Details:
  • Author : Warren I. Cohen
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2018-03-06
  • ISBN : 0231545959
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book A Nation Like All Others written by Warren I. Cohen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 historian Warren I. Cohen calls attention to the uses—and abuses—of U.S. international leadership and the noble as well as the exploitative ends that American power has wrought. In A Nation Like All Others, Cohen offers a brisk, argumentative history that confronts the concept of American exceptionalism and decries the lack of moral imagination in American foreign policy. He begins with the foreign policy of colonial and postrevolutionary America, exploring interactions with European powers and Native Americans and the implications of slavery and westward expansion. He then traces the rise of American empire; the nation’s choices leading up to and in the wake of the First World War; and World War II and renewed military involvement in foreign affairs. Cohen provides a long history of the Cold War, from its roots under Truman through the Korean and Vietnam Wars to the transformation of the international system under Reagan and Gorbachev. Finally, he surveys America’s recent history in the Middle East, with particular attention to the mismanagement of the War on Terror and Abu Ghraib. Written with great depth of knowledge and moral clarity, A Nation Like All Others suggests that an unflinching look at the nation’s past is America’s best option to shape a better future.

Book Undercurrents in American Foreign Relations

Download or read book Undercurrents in American Foreign Relations written by M. S. Venkataramani and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Control of American Foreign Relations

Download or read book The Control of American Foreign Relations written by Quincy Wright and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Book Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations

Download or read book Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations written by Michael J. Hogan and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Entangling Relations

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  • Author : David A. Lake
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 1999-05-02
  • ISBN : 9780691059914
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book Entangling Relations written by David A. Lake and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1999-05-02 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout what publisher Henry Luce dubbed the "American century," the United States has wrestled with two central questions. Should it pursue its security unilaterally or in cooperation with others? If the latter, how can its interests be best protected against opportunism by untrustworthy partners? In a major attempt to explain security relations from an institutionalist approach, David A. Lake shows how the answers to these questions have differed after World War I, during the Cold War, and today. In the debate over whether to join the League of Nations, the United States reaffirmed its historic policy of unilateralism. After World War II, however, it broke decisively with tradition and embraced a new policy of cooperation with partners in Europe and Asia. Today, the United States is pursuing a new strategy of cooperation, forming ad hoc coalitions and evincing an unprecedented willingness to shape but then work within the prevailing international consensus on the appropriate goals and means of foreign policy. In interpreting these three defining moments of American foreign policy, Lake draws on theories of relational contracting and poses a general theory of security relationships. He arrays the variety of possible security relationships on a continuum from anarchy to hierarchy, and explains actual relations as a function of three key variables: the benefits from pooling security resources and efforts with others, the expected costs of opportunistic behavior by partners, and governance costs. Lake systematically applies this theory to each of the "defining moments" of twentieth-century American foreign policy and develops its broader implications for the study of international relations.

Book The History of American Foreign Policy From 1895

Download or read book The History of American Foreign Policy From 1895 written by Jerald A. Combs and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2012-06-04 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This affordable text offers a clear, concise and readable narrative and analytical history of American foreign policy since the Spanish-American War. Special attention is given to the controversial issues and contrasting views that surround major wars and foreign policy decisions that the United States has made from 1895 to the present. The book narrates events and policies but goes further to emphasize the international setting and constraints within which American policy-makers had to operate, the domestic pressures on those policy-makers, and the ideologies, preferences, and personal idiosyncrasies of the leaders themselves.

Book The Politics of Subjectivity in American Foreign Policy Discourses

Download or read book The Politics of Subjectivity in American Foreign Policy Discourses written by Ty Solomon and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2015-01-05 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing look at the role of affect, identity, and discourse in world politics and in the context of recent U.S. foreign policy

Book The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations

Download or read book The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations written by Warren I. Cohen and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book CONDUCT OF AMER FOREIGN RELATI

Download or read book CONDUCT OF AMER FOREIGN RELATI written by John Mabry B. 1883 Mathews and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-10 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations  Volume 4  Challenges to American Primacy  1945 to the Present

Download or read book The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations Volume 4 Challenges to American Primacy 1945 to the Present written by Warren I. Cohen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. The fourth volume of the updated edition explores the conditions in the international system at the end of World War II, the American determination to provide leadership, and the security dilemma each superpower posed for the other. This revised and expanded edition incorporates recent scholarship and revelations, carrying the narrative through the years following the end of the Cold War into the administration of Barack Obama. The character of the American political system is explored, including the separation of political powers and the role of interest groups that prompted American leaders to exaggerate dangers abroad to enhance their domestic power. This new edition examines the conditions in the international system from the end of World War II to the present, focusing on the American determination to provide world leadership.

Book The Control of American Foreign Relations

Download or read book The Control of American Foreign Relations written by Quincy Wright and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1922, this seminal work is a penetrating analysis of the American foreign policy system. Wright examines the complex interplay between politics, economics, and ideology that shapes US foreign relations, and offers a nuanced view of the challenges and opportunities facing American policymakers. This book remains essential reading for scholars, policymakers, and anyone interested in US foreign policy. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book CONTROL OF AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS

Download or read book CONTROL OF AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS written by QUINCY. WRIGHT and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book U S  Foreign Policy in Perspective

Download or read book U S Foreign Policy in Perspective written by David Sylvan and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book refutes the claim that American foreign policy has varied considerably across time and space, arguing that key policy goals and underlying ideological and political factors have not significantly changed over the last hundred years.

Book Undercurrents of Power

Download or read book Undercurrents of Power written by Kevin Dawson and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kevin Dawson considers how enslaved Africans carried aquatic skills—swimming, diving, boat making, even surfing—to the Americas. Undercurrents of Power not only chronicles the experiences of enslaved maritime workers, but also traverses the waters of the Atlantic repeatedly to trace and untangle cultural and social traditions.

Book The History of American Foreign Policy

Download or read book The History of American Foreign Policy written by Jerald A. Combs and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Conduct of American Foreign Relations

Download or read book The Conduct of American Foreign Relations written by Thomas H. Etzold and published by New York : New Viewpoints. This book was released on 1977 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: