US Foreign Policy in World History

US Foreign Policy in World History is a survey of US foreign relations and its perceived crusade to spread liberty and democracy in the two hundred years since the American Revolution. David Ryan undertakes a systematic and material analysis of US foreign policy, whilst also explaining the policymakers' grand ideas, ideologies and constructs that have shaped US diplomacy.
US Foreign Policy explores these arguments by taking a thematic approach structured around central episodes and ideas in the history of US foreign relations and policy making, including:

• The Monroe Doctrine, its philisophical goals and impact
• Imperialism and expansionism
• Decolonization and self-determination
• the Cold War
• Third World development
• the Soviet 'evil empire', the Sandinistas and the 'rogue' regime of Saddam Hussein
• the place of goal for economic integration within foreign affairs.

Autorentext

Principal Lecturer in History at De Montfort University, Leicester

Zusammenfassung
US Foreign Policy in World History is a survey of US foreign relations and its perceived crusade to spread liberty and democracy in the two hundred years since the American Revolution. David Ryan undertakes a systematic and material analysis of US foreign policy, whilst also explaining the policymakers' grand ideas, ideologies and constructs that have shaped US diplomacy.US Foreign Policy explores these arguments by taking a thematic approach structured around central episodes and ideas in the history of US foreign relations and policy making, including: The Monroe Doctrine, its philisophical goals and impact Imperialism and expansionism Decolonization and self-determination the Cold War Third World development the Soviet 'evil empire', the Sandinistas and the 'rogue' regime of Saddam Hussein* the place of goal for economic integration within foreign affairs.

Inhalt

Introduction; Part 1 Constructions; Chapter 1 The Empire for Liberty; Chapter 2 Spheres of Influence; Chapter 3 Imperialisms; Part 2 The American Century; Chapter 4 Constructing the American Century; Chapter 5 Arsenal for Democracy and Self-Determination?; Chapter 6 Containing the East; Integrating the West; Chapter 7 Revolution and Development in the Cold War; Chapter 8 Confronting 'Evil' and Imagined Empires; Chapter 9 Concluding Through Contemporary Dilemmas;