Moynihan's Moment

America's Fight Against Zionism as Racism
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-992030-3
Verlag: OUP US

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 804 g

On November 10, 1975, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution declaring Zionism a form of racism. The move shocked millions, especially in the United States-- the country largely responsible for founding the UN. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the American Ambassador to the UN, denounced this attack on Israel as an anti-Semitic assault on democracy and stood up to the Soviet-backed alliance of Communist dictatorships and Third World autocracies that supported the resolution. His eloquent stand brought him celebrity in the U.S., but ultimately shortened his tenure at the UN by alienating American allies, adversaries, and much of the foreign policy establishment--including Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Nevertheless, Moynihan's moment was a turning point: a harbinger of a shift in American culture and politics that would culminate in the Reagan Revolution.

Moynihan paved the way for a more muscular, idealistic, neoconservative foreign policy and for a new style of defiant "cowboy" diplomacy. In this book, Gil Troy argues that America's idea of itself--still torn, in the mid-'70s, between post-Vietnam and -Watergate defeatism and a growing sense of optimism--changed with Moynihan, altering both the left and the right in ways that continue to play out in the 21st century. Much of the rhetoric of this era survives in domestic foreign policy debates and the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine, suggesting that Moynihan's struggle has much to reveal about American politics and its position on the world stage.

Zielgruppe

Students and scholars of American history, Jewish history, the history of the Cold War, the history of the UN, the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the history of liberalism and conservatism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Troy, Gil

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politik: Sachbuch, Politikerveröffentlichungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Antisemitismus, Pogrome, Shoah
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Vereinte Nationen, UN Organisationen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: Raising Hell: Moynihan's Moment

- Prelude: 1945: "We the Peoples of the United Nations"

- Chapter 1: 1975: "The United States in Opposition" or the New World Disorder

- Chapter 2: The Making of a Warrior-Diplomat: Pat Moynihan as Insider and Outsider

- Chapter 3: The Sixties' "False Lexicon of Political Cliches": Racializing Conflict and anti-Zionism with White Guilt

- Chapter 4:"Scary Doings at Mexico City": The International Women's Year Debacle and the Third World World's Che Guevara Rules

- Chapter 5: "We've Got to Stop This" Moynihan on the Move: October, 1975

- Chapter 6: Oom, Shmoom: "Where are your bloody Jews?"

- Chapter 7: "The United States does not acknowledge, it will not abide by, it will never acquiesce in this infamous act." November, 1975

- Chapter 8: "I AM A ZIONIST": The Liberal Backlash - Against the UN

- Chapter 9: This is "not the OK Corral and I am hardly Wyatt Earp": The Diplomatic Backlash - Against Moynihan

- Epilogue 1: "A Resolution Born out of Bitter Ideological Confrontation among the Nations of the World"

- Epilogue 2: Durban 2001: "The Terrible Lie" with "Terrible Consequences": The Return of Zionism Is Racism in the Delegitmization Derby, the Destruction Dysfunction, and the New Anti-Semitism

Über Autor(innen)

Troy, Gil
Gil Troy is Professor of History at McGill University, a Visiting Scholar at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, DC and a Shalom Hartman Research Fellow in Jerusalem. He is the author of six books on American history, including See How They Ran: The Changing Role of Presidential Candidates, Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s, Leading from the Center: Why Moderates Make the Best Presidents, and The Reagan Revolution: A Very Short Introduction