U.S. Foreign Policy and the Other (Transatlantic Perspectives, 4) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 178533350X ISBN 13: 9781785333507

Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

John Quincy Adams warned Americans not to search abroad for monsters to destroy, yet such figures have frequently habituated the discourses of U.S. foreign policy.  This collection of essays focuses on counter-identities in American consciousness to explain how foreign policies and the discourse surrounding them develop.  Whether it is the seemingly ubiquitous evil of Hitler during World War II or the more complicated perceptions of communism throughout the Cold War, these essays illuminate the cultural contexts that constructed rival identities.  The authors challenge our understanding of "others," looking at early applications of the concept in the eighteenth century to recent twenty-first century conflicts, establishing how this phenomenon is central to decision making through centuries of conflict.

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David Ryan is Professor and Chair of Modern History at University College Cork, Ireland.  He is the author of US Foreign Policy in World History (2000) and Frustrated Empire:US Foreign Policy, 9/11 to Iraq (2007), and he has co-edited Vietnam in Iraq: Tactics, Lessons, Legacies and Ghosts (2007, with John Dumbrell) and America and Iraq: Policy-Making, Intervention, and Regional Politics (2009, with Patrick Kiely).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 178533350X
• ISBN 13: 9781785333507
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 252
• Herausgeber: Cullinane Michael Patrick, Ryan David
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Deutschland