Clarence Streit and Twentieth-Century American Internationalism

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-009-29897-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 234 Seiten, Gewicht: 250 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations

In this illuminating and comprehensive account, Talbot C. Imlay chronicles the life of Clarence Streit and his Atlantic federal union movement in the Unites States during and following the Second World War. The first book to detail Streit's life, work and significance, it reveals the importance of public political cultures in shaping US foreign relations. In 1939, Streit published Union Now which proposed a federation of the North Atlantic democracies modelled on the US Constitution. The buzz created led Streit to leave his position at The New York Times and devote himself to promoting the union. Over the next quarter of a century, Streit worked to promote a new public political culture, employing a variety of strategies to gain visibility and political legitimacy for his project and for federalist frameworks. In doing so, Streit helped shape wartime debates on the nature of the post-war international order and of transatlantic relations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Imlay, Talbot C.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. The making of an Atlantic Federalist, 1914 to 1939; 2. Writing and selling Union Now, 1939-1941; 3. The wartime pursuit of Federal Union, 1940-1945; 4. Clarence Streit and Federal Union during the Cold War; 5. Clarence Streit, the Atlantic Union Committee, and postwar Atlanticism; Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Imlay, Talbot C.
Talbot C. Imlay is Professor of History at Université Laval in Québec, specializing in modern European and international history. He is the author of several books including The Practice of Socialist Internationalism: European Socialists and International Politics, 1914-1960, and, with Martin Horn, The Politics of Industrial Collaboration during World War II: Ford France, Vichy and Nazi Germany.