US Foreign Policy in World History [Paperback]

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 ideologies and the ideas 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
*the Cold War
* Third World development
*the 'evil empires' of Nasser, the Sandinistas and Sadam Hussein
*the place of goal for economic integration within foreign affairsA survey of US foreign relations and its perceived crusade to spread liberty and democracy in the two hundred years since the American Revolution. It is structured around central episodes and ideas in the history of US foreign policy.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;Principal Lecturer in History at De Montfort University, LeicesterUS? 2000 David Ryan