Best laid plans
Subtitle: the origins of American multilateralism and the dawn of the Cold War
By: Stewart Patrick.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9780742562981; 9780742565869
Subjects: International cooperation; United States -- Foreign relations -- Philosophy; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-352) and index.
Table of contents: title: From Washington to Wilson; title: Planning the postwar world : from the Atlantic Charter to Dumbarton Oaks; title: "A world of power, tempered by a little reason" : creating the United Nations; title: "When goods move, soldiers don't" : opening the world economy; title: Bretton woods and the british loan : the postwar monetary and trading system; title: "An imperative principle of action" : self-determination; title: A dream deferred : adapting multilateralism to containment; title: A world economy postponed; title: From collective security to collective defense : the origins of NATO; title: Between anticolonialism and anti-communism : the search for a post-imperial order.