US Foreign Policy in World History

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Psychology Press, 2000 - 255 pages

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.

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Contents

The empire for liberty 21 225
21
Monroeism in US policy
40
old and new
55
Constructing the American Century 23 23
73
Arsenal for democracy and selfdetermination?
94
Containing the East integrating the West
116
Revolution and development in the Cold War
140
Confronting evil and imagined empires
162
Concluding through contemporary dilemmas
182
Notes
204
Selected bibliography
232
Index
247
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About the author (2000)

During his thirty-five-year career, David Ryan, presently adjunct curator of design at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, has organized exhibitions, projects, & publications related to modernist design, including "The Minneapolis Institute's Documents as Art" (1969) & "Art Deco" (1972), and, while he served as director of the Fort Worth Art Museum, "Joseph Hoffman: Design Classics" (1982).

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