Between virtue and power : the persistent moral dilemma of U.S. foreign policy /

In this survey of U.S. history, John Kane looks at the tensions between American virtue and power and how those tensions have influenced foreign policy. Americans have long been suspicious of power as a threat to individual liberty, Kane argues, and yet the growth of national power has been perceive...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kane, John, 1945 April 18- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2008]
Subjects:
Imperialism > History.
Virtue > Political aspects > United States > History.
Power (Social sciences) > United States > History.
Impérialisme > Histoire.
Vertus > Aspect politique > États-Unis > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General.
Diplomatic relations > Philosophy
Diplomatic relations
Imperialism
International relations
International relations > Moral and ethical aspects
International relations > Philosophy
Power (Social sciences)
Territorial expansion
Virtue > Political aspects
Imperialismus
Außenpolitik
Wert
United States > Foreign relations.
United States > Foreign relations > Moral and ethical aspects.
United States > Foreign relations > Philosophy.
United States > Territorial expansion.
États-Unis > Relations extérieures.
États-Unis > Relations extérieures > Aspect moral.
États-Unis > Expansion territoriale.
United States
USA
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Origins and significance of the American mythology
  • Founding a virtuous republic
  • Problems of virtue and power
  • Nonentanglement : the economic dimension
  • Nonentanglement : the political dimension
  • Innocent virtue and the conquest of a continent
  • From imperialism to world peace
  • Woodrow Wilson and the reign of virtue
  • Disillusionment and hope
  • American isolation
  • American virtue and the Soviet challenge
  • Anticommunism and American virtue
  • Cold War ironies
  • Vietnam : virtue stained, power humbled
  • Putting Humpty together again
  • Offended innocence, righteous wrath.

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