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Overview
Since the September 11th, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, traditional American foreign policy has proven inadequate to 21st Century challenges of Islamic terrorism and globalization.
In this ground-breaking analysis, author James Kurth explains that the roots of America's current foreign policy crisis lie in contradictions of an American empire which attempted to transform traditional American national interests promoted by Presidents like Teddy Roosevelt and FDR into a new American-led global order that has unsucessfully attempted to promote supposedly universal, rather than uniquely American, ideals.
Kurth dates the creation of the American empire to the morning of September 2nd, 1945, when General Douglas MacArthur, at the head of the representatives of the Allied Forces, received the surrender of the representatives of the Empire of Japan.
And so, the book begins, on its front cover, with a depiction of the moment when the American Empire, and the "American Century," were born...
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781733117838 |
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Publisher: | Washington Books |
Publication date: | 12/14/2019 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | NOOK Book |
Pages: | 464 |
File size: | 4 MB |
About the Author
Table of Contents
CONTENTS
Preface ............................................................................................ xiii
Overview: Hegemony
Chapter 1 The American Way of Empire:
The Seventy-Year Life of the U.S. Alliance System ........ 3
Part I: Ideology
Chapter 2 The Protestant Deformation:
The Source of the Ideological Tradition ....................... 57
Chapter 3 War, Peace, and the Ideologies of the
20th Century .............................................................. 81
Chapter 4 Democratization: Successes and Failures ..................... 97
Chapter 5 The Adolescent Empire: America and the
Imperial Idea ............................................................ 115
Part II: Strategy
Chapter 6 Grand Strategy: The Source of the
Realist Tradition ....................................................... 139
Chapter 7 Grand Strategy in the Global Era .............................. 167
Chapter 8 The American Way of Victory ................................... 197
Chapter 9 Europe: NATO Expansion versus the
Russian Sphere .......................................................... 215
Chapter 10 The Pacific: The U.S. Alliance system
versus the Chinese Seas ............................................. 231
Part II
Chapter 6 Grand Strategy: The Source of the
Realist Tradition ....................................................... 139
Chapter 7 Grand Strategy in the Global Era .............................. 167
Chapter 8 The American Way of Victory ................................... 197
Chapter 9 Europe: NATO Expansion versus the
Russian Sphere .......................................................... 215
Chapter 10 The Pacific: The U.S. Alliance system
versus the Chinese Seas ............................................. 231
Part III: Insurgency
Chapter 11 Globalization, Empire, and Islamist Terrorism .......... 259
Chapter 12 The Iraq War: Global Ideology versus
Local Realities ........................................................... 277
Chapter 13 The Neo-Conservatives and the Iraq War .................. 303
Chapter 14 Empire and Immigration .......................................... 319
Part IV: Political Economy
Chapter 15 Between America and the World:
The New York Foreign Policy Elite ............................ 339
Chapter 16 The Foreign Policy of Plutocracies: A Tale
of Two Countries – and Two Kinds of Wealth .......... 365
Chapter 17 Creating a Second American Century ....................... 393
Conclusion .................................................................................... 411
Acknowledgements ........................................................................ 419
End Notes ..................................................................................... 423
Bibliography .................................................................................. 433
Index ............................................................................................. 437
About the Author .......................................................................... 445