Us Foreign Policy in Context: National Ideology from the Founders to the Bush Doctrine

ISBN-13: 9780415549653 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 230 str.

Adam Quinn

Opis

This book blends strategic analysis of contemporary US foreign policy with long-term historical analysis, producing an argument relevant to the debates surrounding both the merits of contemporary US foreign policy and the long-term trends at work in American political culture. The book is not a detailed historical study of the Bush administration itself, but seeks to locate Bush within the historical context of the US foreign policy tradition. In the process it produces arguments of relevance to American strategy’s present and future direction, making the book attractive to readers interested in both past and present US foreign policy. It makes the case for nationally specific ideological factors as a driver of foreign policy, and for importance of interaction between the domestic and the international in the emergence of national strategy.

The book’s content has contemporary and historical aspects. Its contemporary element is its critique of the George W. Bush administration’s National Security Strategy and its broader foreign policy, focusing especially on its embrace of liberal universalism and rejection of realism. Its historical element is its cumulative argument, based upon the historical cases, seeking to explain American leaders’ persistent resistance to the prescriptions of realism.

Recenzje

"Quinn’s excellent and ambitious book... has significantly pushed our understandings of recent foreign policy by urging us to think more about the National Security Strategy of 2002 and Bush’s foreign policy as in keeping with the potent historical conceptions of internationalism that buttressed those policies. US Foreign Policy in Context should be applauded for crossing disciplinary boundaries and for analysing the crucial, complex, and (recently) understudied subject of national ideology. But most importantly, this book will be debated because it asks critical conceptual questions about the effects of long-term patterns of intellectual change on foreign policy and provides new analytical tools for discerning and locating the ideological and historical-intellectual forces that deeply informed the foreign policy of George W. Bush." - Christopher McKnight Nichols, University of Pennsylvania; Journal of Transatlantic Studies, 9:1

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. International Relations, History and National Ideology  3. The Founders' Era Consensus:'A Hercules in the Cradle  4. Theodore Roosevelt: 'The Nation that has Dared to be Great'  5. Woodrow Wilson: 'Conquest of the Spirits of Men'  6. The Truman administration:'In the Struggle for Men's Minds, the Conflict is world-wide'  7. The Bush administration:'A Balance of Power that Favours Freedom'  Conclusion:the Bush Strategy and National Ideology

O autorze

Adam Quinn is a Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies at University of Birmingham, He has previously published articles in International Studies Perspectives, Politics & Policy and Global Society.