A concise history of U.S. foreign policy
By: Joyce P. Kaufman
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780742567092; 9780742567108; 9780742567115
Other titles: Concise history of US foreign policy; Concise history of United States foreign policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Setting the stage for understanding U.S. foreign policy. Introduction to U.S. foreign policy -- What Is foreign policy? -- Foreign policy orientations -- Theory and context -- Identifying themes -- Who makes foreign policy and why are particular decisions made? -- Who is affected by U.S. foreign policy decisions? -- Setting the stage -- Unilateralism to engagement: the founding to the end of World War I. The beginning -- Manifest Destiny, the Monroe Doctrine, and Westward Expansion -- The Civil War -- The Spanish-American War -- The scramble for concessions -- The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine -- March to World War I -- U.S. involvement in Russia -- Domestic issues : the executive and legislative branches -- The shifting national interest -- Applying foreign policy concepts : The Spanish-American War -- The interwar years through World War II. Interwar America -- War -- The United Nations : Defining the postwar world -- The end of isolationism -- Applying foreign policy concepts : realism versus idealism in international organizations -- The Cold War. The early years of the Cold War -- 1947 : The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan -- The escalation of the Cold War : Berlin to Korea -- Eisenhower -- The Kennedy years -- Johnson : Vietnam and the great society -- Nixon -- Carter -- Growing engagement -- Applying foreign policy concepts : The Tonkin Gulf Resolution and the lessons of Vietnam -- Beyond the Cold War : Reagan through Clinton. From Cold War to democratic revolutions -- George H. W. Bush and the “New World Order'' -- The Clinton years -- Rethinking foreign policy prior to 9/11 -- Applying foreign policy concepts : the use of U.S. troops for humanitarian purposes -- September 11 and after. George W. Bush : foreign policy before and after September 11 -- September 11 and the responses -- The Obama administration : the first year -- Bush versus Obama -- Applying foreign policy concepts : response to September 11 -- The future of U.S. foreign policy. The Cold War as a framework for U.S. foreign policy -- The actors and the domestic balance of power -- Challenges to U.S. foreign policy in the future -- Notes -- Suggested readings -- Books -- Websites.