Some categorisations of US power have long governed analyses of American foreign policy - concepts such as 'empire', 'decline', 'superpower', 'the Cold War' and 'the War on Terror' - and have led to a distortion that sees US policy measured by broad labels, rather than on its own terms. This fresh new approach seeks to challenge these terms.

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Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2011

ISBN

9780230349209

Topic

Politics & International Relations

Subtopic

International Relations

Index

Politics & International Relations

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