America and the Postwar World: Remaking International Society, 1945-1956: Remaking International Society, 1945-1956

ISBN-13: 9780815376156 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 282 str.

David Mayers

Opis

The main tide of international relations scholarship on the first years after World War Two sweeps toward Cold War accounts. This book examines a past that ran concurrent with the Cold War and interacted with it, but which can also be read as separable: Washington in the first years after the Second World War, and in response to that conflagration, sought to redesign international society. That society was then, and remains, an amorphous thing. This scholarship, centered on the Cold War as vortex and a reconfigured world economy, is rife with contending schools of interpretation and, bolstered by declassified archival documents, will support future investigations and writing.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Destruction 2. Justice 3. Humanity 4. United Nations 5. Empires 6. America

O autorze

Professor David Mayers holds a joint appointment in the History and Political Science Departments at Boston University. His previous books include Cracking the Monolith: US Policy Against the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1949–1955 (1986), George Kennan and the Dilemmas of US Foreign Policy (1988), The Ambassadors and America’s Soviet Policy (awarded the 1995 Douglas Dillon prize from the American Academy of Diplomacy), Wars and Peace: The Future Americans Envisioned, 1861–1991 (1998), Dissenting Voices in America’s Rise to Power (2007), and FDR’s Ambassadors and the Diplomacy of Crisis (2013).