Fink Undoing the Liberal World Order

Progressive Ideals and Political Realities Since World War II
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-231-55446-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch

Leon Fink examines key cases of progressive influence on postwar U.S. foreign policy, tracing the tension between liberal aspirations and the political realities that stymie them. A diplomatic history that emphasizes the roles of class, labor, race, and grassroots activism, this book suggests new directions for progressive foreign policy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fink, Leon

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Left-Liberal Apostles in the Cold War Era
Part I: Labor-Liberalism and the Postwar Order
1. The Bretton Woods Boomerang: Liberal Internationalism, 1944–2016
2. The Good Postwar: German Worker Rights, 1945–1950
3. The Liberal Embrace of Labor Zionism: Israel, 1948–1973
Part II: Liberal Anticommunism
4. Anticommunism as Social Policy: Costa Rica, 1944–1980
5. Siren Song of Economic Development: U.S. Missions to India, 1952–1975
Part III: Liberal Nationalism on Trial
6. The Quest for a Two-State Solution: Israel, 1973–2000
7. The Long Arm of the Civil Rights Movement: South Africa, 1970–2000
Conclusion: Beyond Humanitarianism
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fink Leon:
Leon Fink is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the editor of Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, the preeminent journal for labor historians. He is the author or editor of a dozen university press books, including, most recently, Labor Justice Across the Americas (Duke, 2017); The Long Gilded Age: American Capitalism and the Promise of a New World Order (Penn, 2015); and Sweatshops at Sea: Merchant Seamen in the World's First Globalized Industry, from 1812 to the Present (UNC, 2011). He has written for the Chicago Tribune, The Nation, Dissent, Salon.com, The Daily Beast, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, Fulbright Senior Scholar, and NEH Fellow.Leon Fink is distinguished professor of history emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago and senior resident scholar at Georgetown University’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. He is the editor of the journal Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, and his many books include, most recently, Labor Justice Across the Americas (2017).