A Faustian Foreign Policy from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush: Dreams of Perfectibility

by Joan Hoff

• ISBN13: 9780521714044
• ISBN10: 0521714044
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-12-10
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Professor Joan Hoff's A Faustian Foreign Policy: Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush critiques U.S. foreign policy during this period by showing how moralistic diplomacy has increasingly taken on Faustian overtones. As long as the ideological outcome of the Cold War remained in doubt, there was little reason for presidents or government decision makers to question the unethical aspects of U.S. relations with the rest of the world or the universal and exceptional nature of American values. September 11 allowed the United States to assert its exceptionalism and dominance more unilaterally than ever before.

Author Biography

Joan Hoff is now Research Professor of History at Montana State University, Bozeman

Table of Contents

Introduction: Toward a Faustian Diplomacy	p. 1
The United States Forms and Refines Its Diplomacy	p. 22
The Faustian Impact of World War I on U.S. Diplomacy	p. 45
The Faustian Aspects of Prosperity, Depression, and War	p. 68
Faustian Aspects of U.S. Cold War Foreign Policy	p. 92
Cold War Transformation of the American Presidency	p. 112
The United States Adrift in the Post-Cold War World	p. 134
Flaunting Faustian Foreign Policy	p. 156
Epilogue: The Legacy of George W. Bush	p. 182
Notes	p. 205
Bibliography	p. 263
Index	p. 289
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