Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World - Hardcover

Mead, Walter Russell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375412301 ISBN 13: 9780375412301

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2001

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Book by Mead Walter Russell

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When Mead (US foreign policy, Council on Foreign Relations) began research for a book on US foreign policy at the end of the Cold War, he found discrepancies with the traditional view that foreign policy was of little concern in the country before World War II. His new perspective acknowledges the relative success of democratic states, and a unique view of the world shared by the US and Britain. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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our leading experts on foreign policy, a full-scale reinterpretation of America’s dealings―from its earliest days―with the rest of the world.

It is Walter Russell Mead’s thesis that the United States, by any standard, has had a more successful foreign policy than any of the other great powers that we have faced―and faced down. Beginning as an isolated string of settlements at the edge of the known world, this country―in two centuries―drove the French and the Spanish out of North America; forced Britain, then the world’s greatest empire, to respect American interests; dominated coalitions that defeated German and Japanese bids for world power; replaced the tottering British Empire with a more flexible and dynamic global system built on American power; triumphed in the Cold War; and exported its language, culture, currency, and political values throughout the world.

Yet despite, and often because of, this success, both Americans a

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375412301
• ISBN 13: 9780375412301
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 374