Author: Norman A. GraebnerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258487843
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Cold War Diplomacy
Author: Norman A. GraebnerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258487843
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Cold War Diplomacy
Author: Norman A. GraebnerCold War Diplomacy
Author: Norman A. GraebnerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258491000
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The History of American Foreign Policy
Author: Jerald A. CombsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
The Diplomacy of the Crucial Decade
Author: Diane B. KunzPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231081771
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Although the foreign policy decisions made by Kennedy and Johnson determined the final form of postwar diplomacy and laid the foundation for the tumultuous worldwide political changes of the last five years, until now no book has examined American diplomacy during 1960s as a whole. During his presidency, Kennedy concentrated on foreign policy. The president and his staff feared that communism had taken the offensive internationally and that the U.S. was in danger of losing the confrontation, particularly in the developing world. While Johnson attempted to focus on domestic issues, foreign issues nevertheless loomed large. Consequently, the contributors to this volume argue, all aspects of American foreign policy during that decade must be viewed through the prism of the fight against communism. The chapters, which were commissioned for this book by the editor, examine the major subjects and themes of this period in a way that provides new insight to students and general readers alike. Each chapter also contains brief notes and a bibliographic sketch.
Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945-1960
Author: William InbodenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521156301
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The Cold War was in many ways a religious war. Presidents Truman and Eisenhower and other American leaders believed that human rights and freedoms were endowed by God, that God had called the United States to defend liberty in the world, and that Soviet communism was especially evil because of its atheism and its enmity to religion. Along with security and economic concerns, these religious convictions also helped determine both how the United States defined the enemy and how it fought the conflict. Meanwhile, American Protestant churches failed to seize the moment. Internal differences over theology and politics, and resistance to cooperation with Catholics and Jews, hindered Protestant leaders domestically and internationally. Frustrated by these internecine disputes, Truman and Eisenhower attempted instead to construct a new civil religion. This public theology was used to mobilize domestic support for Cold War measures, to determine the strategic boundaries of containment, to appeal to people of all religious faiths around the world to unite against communism, and to undermine the authority of communist governments within their own countries.
The Cold War at Home and Abroad
Author: Andrew L. JohnsPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813175755
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
From President Truman's use of a domestic propaganda agency to Ronald Reagan's handling of the Soviet Union during his 1984 reelection campaign, the American political system has consistently exerted a profound effect on the country's foreign policies. Americans may cling to the belief that "politics stops at the water's edge," but the reality is that parochial political interests often play a critical role in shaping the nation's interactions with the outside world. In The Cold War at Home and Abroad: Domestic Politics and US Foreign Policy since 1945, editors Andrew L. Johns and Mitchell B. Lerner bring together eleven essays that reflect the growing methodological diversity that has transformed the field of diplomatic history over the past twenty years. The contributors examine a spectrum of diverse domestic factors ranging from traditional issues like elections and Congressional influence to less frequently studied factors like the role of religion and regionalism, and trace their influence on the history of US foreign relations since 1945. In doing so, they highlight influences and ideas that expand our understanding of the history of American foreign relations, and provide guidance and direction for both contemporary observers and those who shape the United States' role in the world. This expansive volume contains many lessons for politicians, policy makers, and engaged citizens as they struggle to implement a cohesive international strategy in the face of hyper-partisanship at home and uncertainty abroad.
Cold War and Détente
Author: Paul Y. HammondPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
The Diplomacy of Silence. The American Foreign Service, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War, 1933-1947
Author: Hugh De SantisWar and Cold War in American Foreign Policy, 1942-62
Author: D. CarterPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403913854
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Making use of newly-researched archival material, this collection of original essays on wartime and postwar US foreign policy re-evaluates well-known crises and documents many less familiar aspects of the nation's mid-twentieth century conflicts. Leading diplomatic historians address familiar subjects from new angles. They offer new evidence about the risks run and the costs incurred in the prosecution of the Cold War, from Korea to the Caribbean. And they provide up-to-date accounting of mid-twentieth century American diplomacy's global purposes and consequences.