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Foreign Policy at the Periphery : The Shifting Margins of US International Relations since World War II /

As American interests assumed global proportions after 1945, policy makers were faced with the challenge of prioritizing various regions and determining the extent to which the United States was prepared to defend and support them. Superpowers and developing nations soon became inextricably linked a...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ryan, Maria, 1979- (Editor ), Sewell, Bevan, 1980- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Colección:Studies in conflict, diplomacy, and peace.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Bevan Sewell and Maria Ryan
  • part 1. Themes
  • 1. How the periphery became the center : the Cold War, the third world, and the transformation in US strategic thinking / Robert J. McMahon
  • 2. Peripheral vision : US modernization efforts and the periphery / David Ekbladh
  • 3. Narratives of core and periphery : the Cold War and after / Andrew J. Rotter
  • 4. US government responses to anti-Americanism at the periphery / Alan McPherson
  • 5. Peripheral places/global war / Simon Dalby
  • part 2. Case studies
  • 6. Whistling in the dark : US efforts to navigate un policy toward decolonization, 1945-1963 / Mary Ann Heiss
  • 7. One world? Rethinking America's margins, 1935-1945 / Ryan Irwin
  • 8. Accidental diplomats : the influence of American evangelical missionaries on US relations with the Congo during the early Cold War period, 1959-1963 / Philip Dow
  • 9. Structuring the economy on the periphery : the United States, the 1958 Argentine stabilization agreement, and the evolution of global capitalism / Dustin Walcher
  • 10. Dialogue or détente : Henry Kissinger, Latin America, and the prospects for a new inter-American understanding, 1973-1977 / Tanya Harmer
  • 11. Uncertainty rising : oil money and international terrorism in the 1970s / Christopher R.W. Dietrich
  • 12. The peripheral center : Nicaragua in US policy and the US imagination at the end of the Cold War / David Ryan
  • 13. Enlargement and its discontents : core and periphery in Clinton-era foreign policy / Hal Brands
  • 14. The War on Terror and the new periphery / Maria Ryan.