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List of boxes | p. xvii |
List of controversies | p. xix |
List of key quotes | p. xx |
List of major debates and their impact | p. xxii |
About the editors | p. xxiii |
About the contributors | p. xxv |
Introduction: US foreign policy-past, present, and future | p. 1 |
Theories of US foreign policy | p. 7 |
Introduction | p. 8 |
Theories of American foreign policy | p. 10 |
Origins of the Cold War | p. 17 |
Grand strategy | p. 19 |
Conclusion | p. 22 |
American exceptionalism | p. 24 |
Introduction: American difference and exceptionality | p. 25 |
Difference, exceptionality, and success | p. 26 |
Liberal exceptionalism | p. 29 |
Peculiar Americanism | p. 32 |
Exceptionality and foreign policy | p. 35 |
Conclusion: unipolarity, war on terrorism, and unilateralism | p. 39 |
Historical Contexts | p. 43 |
The US rise to world power, 1776-1945 | p. 45 |
Introduction | p. 46 |
From colonies to continental empire, 1776-1865 | p. 46 |
From old empire to new empire, 1865-1913 | p. 50 |
Wilson's empire of ideology-and the bitter reaction, 1913-33 | p. 52 |
The road from economic depression to the Cold War, 1933-45 | p. 56 |
Conclusion | p. 60 |
American foreign policy during the Cold War | p. 63 |
Introduction | p. 64 |
The Cold War and theorizing American foreign policy | p. 65 |
The origins of the Cold War and containment | p. 68 |
Korea, NSC-68, and the militarization of US foreign policy | p. 76 |
Cold War in the third world | p. 78 |
Ending the Cold War | p. 83 |
Conclusion | p. 86 |
America in the 1990s: searching for purpose | p. 88 |
Introduction: post-Cold War American internationalism | p. 89 |
Searching for purpose: the 'Kennan sweepstakes' | p. 90 |
Foreign policy making in the new order | p. 96 |
US foreign policy in the post-Cold War era | p. 98 |
Conclusion | p. 103 |
Institutions and Processes | p. 105 |
The foreign policy process: executive, Congress, intelligence | p. 107 |
Introduction | p. 108 |
Challenge of foreign policy to state formation | p. 108 |
Foreign policy as a primary agency of governmental adaptation | p. 110 |
Congress and the challenge of co-equality | p. 115 |
Democratic dilemmas | p. 120 |
9/11, the war on terror, and new tensions | p. 123 |
Conclusion | p. 126 |
Military power and US foreign policy | p. 129 |
Introduction | p. 130 |
Rise of American military power, 1945-91: containment and deterrence | p. 130 |
The post-Cold War era: confronting fundamental questions | p. 133 |
The administration of George W. Bush: terrorism and pre-emption | p. 137 |
Conclusion | p. 143 |
Regional shifts and US foreign policy | p. 145 |
Introduction | p. 146 |
Regional interests and foreign policy | p. 147 |
The great debate over expansionism | p. 148 |
The struggle over internationalism | p. 152 |
American primacy and the 'new sectionalism' | p. 157 |
Conclusion | p. 160 |
Media and US foreign policy | p. 163 |
Introduction | p. 164 |
Concepts | p. 164 |
The pluralist model | p. 166 |
The elite model | p. 172 |
Public and media diplomacy | p. 178 |
Conclusion: new technology and US power | p. 179 |
Identities and US foreign policy | p. 183 |
Introduction | p. 184 |
Interests and US foreign policy | p. 185 |
Critical social constructivism | p. 186 |
Discourses as productive | p. 191 |
Critical social constructivism as critique | p. 195 |
Identity in US foreign policy | p. 198 |
Conclusion | p. 207 |
The United States and the World | p. 211 |
US foreign policy in the Middle East | p. 213 |
Introduction | p. 214 |
The transformation of US foreign policy towards the Middle East: from Wilson to Bush | p. 217 |
International relations, United States foreign policy, and the Middle East | p. 219 |
The United States, the Cold War, and the Middle East | p. 221 |
The United States and Israel | p. 226 |
The United States and oil | p. 231 |
Conclusion: the Bush Doctrine and the invasion of Iraq: continuity or change in US foreign policy towards the Middle East? | p. 233 |
The USA and the EU | p. 236 |
Introduction | p. 237 |
US foreign policy and European integration | p. 238 |
The United States and the European Union | p. 244 |
Conclusion | p. 253 |
US foreign policy in Russia | p. 257 |
Introduction | p. 258 |
The end of an era | p. 259 |
Bill and Boris | p. 260 |
NATO enlargement | p. 263 |
The Kosovo crisis | p. 264 |
The 'Great Game' revisited | p. 265 |
A new face in the Kremlin-and the White House | p. 266 |
A strategy for a New World | p. 268 |
A reversal of course | p. 270 |
Conclusion | p. 273 |
The USA and Asia-Pacific | p. 275 |
Introduction | p. 276 |
Japan, the United States, and the new Asian order | p. 277 |
China comes in from the cold | p. 280 |
The United States, Korea, and the legacy of the Cold War | p. 283 |
Asia-Pacific: primed for rivalry? | p. 286 |
The United States: hegemonic still? | p. 288 |
US foreign policy in Latin America | p. 292 |
Introduction | p. 293 |
Latin America and the formation of the modern USA | p. 297 |
A reluctant superpower | p. 301 |
Cold war coexistence | p. 305 |
The Washington 'Consensus' questioned | p. 309 |
Conclusion | p. 312 |
US foreign policy in Africa | p. 315 |
Introduction | p. 316 |
USA-Africa relations: history and the Cold War | p. 317 |
The USA and Africa in a post-Cold War world | p. 319 |
The USA and Africa after 9/11 | p. 326 |
Conclusion | p. 329 |
Key Issues | p. 333 |
Global economy | p. 335 |
Introduction | p. 336 |
The actors and mechanisms of American economic strategy | p. 336 |
Perspectives on American economic strategy since 1945 | p. 341 |
Has the strategy worked? | p. 350 |
Global terrorism | p. 357 |
Introduction: the 9/11 attacks | p. 358 |
Terrorism and the background to 9/11 | p. 359 |
The war on terror I | p. 362 |
The war on terror II | p. 366 |
Rethinking the war on terror | p. 369 |
Global environment | p. 374 |
Introduction | p. 375 |
Environmental multilateralism and the USA | p. 376 |
Explaining US foreign environment policy | p. 389 |
Conclusion | p. 394 |
Futures and Scenarios | p. 399 |
American foreign policy after 9/11 | p. 401 |
Introduction | p. 402 |
The background | p. 402 |
Framing 9/11 and its aftermath | p. 406 |
The triumph of ideology: the 'neo-cons' in the ascendant | p. 408 |
Blowback: US foreign policy against itself? | p. 409 |
The centrality of military power-and 'imperial overstretch'? | p. 411 |
The shape of America's wars | p. 412 |
Iraq: the new Vietnam? | p. 414 |
After Iraq: continuity and disjunction in US foreign policy | p. 416 |
America's 'security trap' | p. 420 |
Introduction | p. 421 |
Transformations in global power | p. 422 |
The erosion of state sovereignty | p. 423 |
The democratization paradox | p. 425 |
Bush and the security trap | p. 427 |
Conclusion: escaping the security trap | p. 429 |
The future of US foreign policy | p. 433 |
Introduction | p. 434 |
The ideological roots of US foreign policy | p. 435 |
Strengths and weaknesses of the USA | p. 437 |
The US political order and foreign policy | p. 439 |
Future foreign policies | p. 441 |
Catastrophic scenarios | p. 447 |
Conclusion | p. 448 |
References | p. 451 |
Index | p. 469 |
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