Nichols / Milne Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations

New Histories
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-231-55427-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 520 Seiten

Winner, 2023 Joseph Fletcher Prize for Best Edited Book in Historical International Relations, History Section, International Studies Association

Ideology drives American foreign policy in ways seen and unseen. Racialized notions of subjecthood and civilization underlay the political revolution of eighteenth-century white colonizers; neoconservatism, neoliberalism, and unilateralism propelled the post–Cold War United States to unleash catastrophe in the Middle East. Ideologies order and explain the world, project the illusion of controllable outcomes, and often explain success and failure. How does the history of U.S. foreign relations appear differently when viewed through the lens of ideology?

This book explores the ideological landscape of international relations from the colonial era to the present. Contributors examine ideologies developed to justify—or resist—white settler colonialism and free-trade imperialism, and they discuss the role of nationalism in immigration policy. The book reveals new insights on the role of ideas at the intersection of U.S. foreign and domestic policy and politics. It shows how the ideals coded as “civilization,” “freedom,” and “democracy” legitimized U.S. military interventions and enabled foreign leaders to turn American power to their benefit. The book traces the ideological struggle over competing visions of democracy and of American democracy’s place in the world and in history. It highlights sources beyond the realm of traditional diplomatic history, including nonstate actors and historically marginalized voices. Featuring the foremost specialists as well as rising stars, this book offers a foundational statement on the intellectual history of U.S. foreign policy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nichols, Christopher McKnight

Milne, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Über Autor(innen)

Nichols Christopher McKnight :

Christopher McKnight Nichols is associate professor of history at Oregon State University and Director of OSU’s Center for the Humanities. He is the author of Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age (Harvard UP, 2011), co-author of Prophesies of Godlessness: Predictions of America’s Imminent Secularization from the Puritans to the Present Day (Oxford UP, 2008), senior editor of Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History (2013), co-editor of Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (2017), and coeditor of the forthcoming Rethinking Grand Strategy: America and the World from the Colonial Era to the Present (Oxford). He is a 2016 Carnegie fellow, an OAH Distinguished Lecturer, an editorial board member of the “Made by History” section of the Washington Post, and a permanent member of the Council on Foreign Relations.Milne David :

David Milne is professor in modern history at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of America’s Rasputin: Walt Rostow and the Vietnam War (FSG/Hill and Wang, 2008) and Worldmaking: The Art and Science of American Diplomacy (FSG, 2015). His work has appeared in The Journal of Military History, International Affairs, Diplomatic History, the Review of International Studies, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, and Foreign Policy.Christopher McKnight Nichols is professor of history and Wayne Woodrow Hayes Chair in National Security Studies, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, at the Ohio State University. An Andrew Carnegie Fellow and award-winning scholar and teacher, Nichols is the author or editor of six books, including Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age (2011) and Rethinking American Grand Strategy (2021).

David Milne is professor of modern history at the University of East Anglia. His books include Worldmaking: The Art and Science of American Diplomacy (2015).