A Faustian Foreign Policy from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush
Subtitle: Dreams of Perfectibility
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 10, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780521714044
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Political Science; History - U.S.; Politics/International Relations; USA; International Relations - General; United States - 20th Century; United States - 21st Century; History / United States / 20th Century; History & Theory - General; 2001-; 20th century; Foreign relations; Philosophy; United States
Description: "A Faustian Foreign Policy from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush: Dreams of Perfectibility critiques U.S. foreign policy during this period by showing how moralistic diplomacy has increasingly assumed Faustian overtones, especially during the Cold War and following September 11. The ideological components of American diplomacy, originating in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, evolved through the twentieth century as U.S. economic and political power steadily increased." "Seeing myth making as essential in any country's founding and a common determinant of its foreign policy, Professor Joan Hoff reveals how the basic belief in its exceptionalism has driven America's past and present attempts to remake the world in its own image. She expands her original concept of "independent internationalism" as the modus operandi of U.S. diplomacy to reveal the many unethical Faustian deals the United States has entered into since 1920 to obtain its current global supremacy."--Jacket.