Weltmacht und Weltordnung. Amerikanische Au enpolitik von 1898 bis zur Gegenwart. Eine Jahrhundertgeschichte (World power and world order. American foreign policy, 1898 to the present. A history of the twentieth century)

2007 ◽  
Vol 94 (1) ◽  
pp. 295-296
Author(s):  
P. F. Coogan
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
American Foreign Policy ◽  
World Order ◽  
World Power ◽  
History Of

America's Mission

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Smith
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
American Foreign Policy ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
World Order ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Liberal Internationalism ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
History Of ◽  
Global Strength ◽  
The Arab Spring

This book provides a comprehensive historical review of American liberal democratic internationalism. It argues that the global strength and prestige of democracy today are due in large part to America's impact on international affairs. The book documents the extraordinary history of how American foreign policy has been used to try to promote democracy worldwide, an effort that enjoyed its greatest triumphs in the occupations of Japan and Germany but suffered huge setbacks in Latin America, Vietnam, and elsewhere. With new chapters and a new introduction and epilogue, this expanded edition also traces U.S. attempts to spread democracy more recently, under presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama, and assesses America's role in the Arab Spring. The book argues that liberal internationalism is built on powerful global historical trends, and the liberal internationalist streak in American foreign policy has been responsible for shaping a liberal world order conducive to American security and economic interests.

scholarly journals J. William Fulbright, the Contested Legacies of the American Revolution, and the War in Vietnam

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-45
Author(s):  
Candace Sobers
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
American Foreign Policy ◽  
Fundamental Issue ◽  
Self Image ◽  
History Of

In 1968, veteran Chair of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations J. William Fulbright summoned a series of experts to a hearing on the Vietnam War and American foreign policy. The assembled academics were not asked to examine the minutiae of U.S. strategy and tactics in Vietnam, but to grapple with a more fundamental issue—what was the nature of revolution? The participants’ testimonies interrogated the nation's revolutionary past to understand and inform their perspectives on Vietnam, the limits of U.S. power, and the contested legacies of the American Revolution. The hearings illuminated the intellectual history of an underexplored theme in U.S. foreign relations history—a marked ambivalence toward other people's revolutions, especially in the twentieth century, and the consequences of this contradictory posture for the United States's self-image and foreign policy.

Fifteen Years of American Foreign Policy

1961 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-19
Author(s):  
M. A. Fitzsimons
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
American Foreign Policy ◽  
World Order ◽  
International Order ◽  
World Power ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Historical Movement

American foreign policy since 1945 has been made by the often cumbersome processes of response of a representative republic to very rapidly acquired responsibilities as a world power. It involves the story of the transformation of an isolationist citizenry, who had frequently assumed that international order was of no vital concern to it, or that the order would be maintained automatically, or that American efforts to maintain world order could end only in disaster because of the inadequacies of American leaders and the sophisticated deviousness of foreigners. The transformation of a largely isolationist citizenry into the consenting citizens of a republic facing the demands of world rivalry has the epic sweep of a decisive world historical movement. The magnitude of the effort involved, however, dwindles when the dimensions of the challenge to the republic are considered.

scholarly journals The History of American Foreign Policy Thought: Debates about the US Sovereignty in the Late 20th – Early 21st Centuries

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-59
Author(s):  
Aleksei D. Katkov
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
American Foreign Policy ◽  
World Order ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Us ◽  
History Of ◽  
International Obligations ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Cold War

In the 1990s the end of the Cold War and the US’s efforts to build a “new world order” actualized in scientific discourse the problem of understanding the principle of state sovereignty. Moreover, due to the WTO accession, the discussion among United States’ scholars intensified about the preservation of sovereignty of their own state. As a result, both the US authorities and most experts advocate the inviolability of the sovereignty of their country, noting, however, that it might be temporarily limited by different international obligations, first of all by economic agreements, but this does not affect it radically and the possibility of withdrawing from various kinds of contracts remains. At the same time, the last superpower’s foreign policy actions at the end of the 20th century (interference in the internal affairs of Grenada, Nicaragua, Panama, Haiti, Yugoslavia, etc.) clearly illustrate the disregard for the sovereignty of other states. In an attempt to explain this policy, they argued that sovereignty, while remaining a significant principle in general, can be lost, which opens up the legitimate path to the internationalization of a conflict. All in all, despite the fact that such an understanding of sovereignty as a conditional principle, is not new in itself, the United States took some steps to extend this understanding to the whole world, granting itself the right to single-handedly determine cases where and why sovereign rights are lost.

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