Ideologies of American Foreign Policy
A comprehensive account of ideology and its role in the foreign policy of the United States of America, this book investigates the way United States foreign policy has been understood, debated and explained in the period since the US emerged as a global force, on its way to becoming the world power.
Starting from the premise that ideologies facilitate understanding by providing explanatory patterns or frameworks from which meaning can be derived, the authors study the relationship between ideology and foreign policy, demonstrating the important role ideas have played in US foreign policy. Drawing on a range of US administrations, they consider key speeches and doctrines, as well as private conversations, and compare rhetoric to actions in order to demonstrate how particular sets of ideas that is, ideologies from anti-colonialism and anti-communism to neo-conservatism mattered during specific presidencies and how US foreign policy was projected, explained and sustained from one administration to another.
Bringing a neglected dimension into the study of US foreign policy, this book will be of great interest to students and researchers of US foreign policy, ideology and politics.
John Callaghan is Professor of Politics and Contemporary History at the University of Salford.
Brendon OConnor is an Associate Professor at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.
Mark Phythian is Professor of Politics in the School of History, Politics and International Relations at the University of Leicester.
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Ideologies of American Foreign Policy
John Callaghan, Brendon OConnor and Mark Phythian
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Names: Callaghan, John (John T.), author. | OConnor, Brendon, 1969 author. | Phythian, Mark, author.
Title: Ideologies of American foreign policy / John Callaghan, Brendon OConnor, and Mark Phythian.
Description: New York : Routledge, 2019. | Series: Routledge studies in US foreign policy | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018045193 | ISBN 9780415474306 (hardback) | ISBN 9780415474313 (pbk.) | ISBN 9780429019241 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: United StatesForeign relations19451989. | United StatesForeign relations1989 | United StatesForeign relationsPhilosophy.
Classification: LCC E840 .C32 2019 | DDC 327.73009/04dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018045193
ISBN: 9780415474306 (hbk)
ISBN: 9780415474313 (pbk)
ISBN: 9780429019241 (ebk)
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