A Nation Like All Others (eBook)

A Brief History of American Foreign Relations

Warren I. Cohen (Autor)

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2018
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-54595-2 (ISBN)

Infos

In this comprehensive account of American foreign relations from the nation’s birth through the Obama administration, Warren I. Cohen confronts the concept of American exceptionalism. A Nation Like All Others offers a brisk, argumentative history that decries the lack of moral imagination in American foreign policy.

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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.

Autor

Warren I. Cohen is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. His Columbia University Press books include East Asian Art and American Culture (1992), East Asia at the Center: Four Thousand Years of Engagement with the World (2001), and America’s Response to China: A History of Sino-American Relations (fifth edition, 2010).

Inhalt

PrefaceAcknowledgments1. To Create a Nation2. A Not Quite Perfect Union3. A Rising Imperial Power4. Civil War5. The New Empire6. Teddy Roosevelt and the Great Power Game7. To Make the World Safe for Democracy8. World Leadership9. Franklin Roosevelt Leads the Nation to War10. Origins of the Cold War11. The Korean War As a Turning Point12. New Leaders And New Arenas13. On The Brink Of Nuclear War14. Vietnam and the Lessons of Great Power Arrogance15. The Quest for Détente16. The Reagan Surprise—Enter Gorbachev17. The New World Order18. The Vulcans Rise—and Fall19. The Obama PromiseLast ThoughtsIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.3.2018
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• ISBN-10: 0-231-54595-9 / 0231545959
• ISBN-13: 978-0-231-54595-2 / 9780231545952