Ideologies of American Foreign Policy

From Pearl Harbour to the Present
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-415-47430-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy

A comprehensive account of ideology and its role in the foreign policy of the United States of America, this book investigates the way United States foreign policy has been understood, debated and explained in the period since the US emerged as a global force, on its way to becoming the world power.

Starting from the premise that ideologies facilitate understanding by providing explanatory patterns or frameworks from which meaning can be derived, the authors study the relationship between ideology and foreign policy, demonstrating the important role ideas have played in US foreign policy. Drawing on a range of US administrations, they consider key speeches and doctrines, as well as private conversations, and compare rhetoric to actions in order to demonstrate how particular sets of ideas – that is, ideologies – from anti-colonialism and anti-communism to neo-conservatism mattered during specific presidencies and how US foreign policy was projected, explained and sustained from one administration to another.

Bringing a neglected dimension into the study of US foreign policy, this book will be of great interest to students and researchers of US foreign policy, ideology and politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Callaghan, John

O'Connor, Brendon

Phythian, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Geopolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Ost-West Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The question of ideology 2. The age of ideology in foreign policy 3. Anti-communism fixed 4. The Johnson administration and the defence of freedom in Vietnam 5. Doctrine, dominoes and democracy in the Nixon-Kissinger foreign policy 6. The exceptionalism of Ronald Reagan: ideology and Cold war, from intensification to end 7. George W. Bush administration: terrorism, Iraq and freedom 8. Ideological framings of American foreign policy: the domestic legacy

Über Autor(innen)

John Callaghan is Professor of Politics and Contemporary History at the University of Salford.

Brendon O’Connor is an Associate Professor at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.

Mark Phythian is Professor of Politics in the School of History, Politics and International Relations at the University of Leicester.