The New American Empire: A 21st-Century Teach-In on U.S. Foreign Policy

the new american empire: a 21st-century teach-in on u.s. foreign policy

The New American Empire: A 21st-Century Teach-In on U.S. Foreign Policy

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Book Description
The historical roots of contemporary America's foreign policy, by today's leading scholars.

"The vast ambition of the geostrategic rulers around George Bush the Younger to achieve global domination . . . is already running afoul of its own systemic preconditions. -Anders Stephanson in The New American Empire

In in The New American Empire, leading authorities on U.S. foreign policy examine the historical underpinnings of the new American unilateralism. Offering an accessible, critical overview of U.S. policy in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East, they assess both the distinct continuities between past and present U.S. policy, as well as what makes the current administration's policies dramatically different. The essays also reveal how those policies serve the ends of favored groups for whom imperialism pays both ideologically and materially.

Both an essential historical primer on America's new imperial role and a thorough dissection of the Bush administration's foreign policy objectives, in The New American Empire is sure to become a touchstone for understanding America's role in the twenty-first-century world.

Contributors include: Michael Adas, John Dower, Lloyd Gardner, Carole Gluck, Gregory Grandin, Thomas McCormick, Mary Nolan, John Prados, Edward Rhodes, and Marilyn Young.

Subjects include:

The lessons for today of American imperialism in the Philippines
The American Reconstruction of Japan as a faulty contemporary model
The way Cold War policies operate in the absence of the "Evil Empire"
How the Iraq war has been portrayed on American television
The erosion of America's social compact with Europe
Anti-Americanism and Anti-Europeanism
Bush's flawed moral crusade

About the Author
Lloyd Gardner is Research Professor of History at Rutgers University and the author of more than a dozen books, including Pay Any Price and Spheres of Influence. Marilyn B. Young is Professor of History at New York University and author of Empire, Transforming Russia and China (with William Rosenberg) and The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990.

The New American Empire: A 21st-Century Teach-In on U.S. Foreign Policy,Lloyd Gardner,Marilyn B. Young,New Press,1565849051,1989-,2001-,20th century,21st century,Foreign relations,Government - U.S. Government,History,Imperialism,International Relations - General,Political Science,Politics / Current Events,Politics/International Relations,U.S. Foreign Relations,United States,World politics

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