American foreign policy: Studies in intellectual history

218 Pages·2017·12.443 MB·English

by  Jean-Francois Drolet (editor), James Dunkerley (editor)

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American foreign policy
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American foreign policy

Studies in intellectual history
Edited by Jean- François Drolet and James Dunkerley
Manchester University Press
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Contents

Notes on contributors page vii
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction: thinking about America in the world over the
longer run James Dunkerley 1
1 The strange career of nation- building as a concept in US
foreign policy Jeremi Suri 33
2 Race, utopia, perpetual peace: Andrew Carnegie’s
dreamworld Duncan Bell 46
3 Carl Schmitt and the American century Jean- François Drolet 68
4 Realist exceptionalism: philosophy, politics and foreign policy
in America’s ‘second modernity’ Vibeke Schou Tjalve and
Michael C. Williams 96
5 The social and political construction of the Cold War
Tracy B. Strong 116
6 Chaotic epic: Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of
Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
revisited James Dunkerley 137
7 Paul Wolfowitz and the promise of American power,
1969– 2001 David Milne 159
Index 193
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Notes on contributors

Duncan Bell is Reader in Political Thought and International Relations
at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of The Idea of Greater
Britain: Empire and the Future of World Order, 1860– 1900 (Princeton
University Press, 2007) and Reordering the World: Essays on Liberalism
and Empire (Princeton University Press, 2007), as well as assorted edited
books, including Uncertain Empire: American History and the Idea of the
Cold War (co- edited with Joel Isaac, Oxford University Press, 2012).
Jean- François Drolet is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International
Relations at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of
American Neoconservatism: The Politics and Culture of a Reactionary
Idealism (Columbia University Press, 2011) and has published numerous
articles on questions of ideology, violence and culture in international polit-
ical thought and the history of ideas. He is presently in the process of com-
pleting a monograph on Nietzsche and political thought.
James Dunkerley is Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of
London. Between 1998 and 2008 he was Director of the University
of London’s Institute for the Study of the Americas. Amongst his books
are: Power in the Isthmus: A Political History of Modern Central America
(Verso, 1988); Political Suicide in Latin America (Verso, 1994); The United
States and Latin America: The New Agenda (co- edited with Victor Bulmer-
Thomas, Harvard University Press, 1999); Americana: The Americas in the
World around 1850 (Verso, 2000).
David Milne is Senior Lecturer in American Political History at the University
of East Anglia. He is the author of several journal articles on the diplomatic
history and intellectual history of American foreign policy. His first mono-
graph America’s Rasputin: Walt Rostow and the Vietnam War (Hill and
Wang, 2008) was reviewed to acclaim. David’s current project explores the
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different ways in which humanities and social science graduates approach
foreign policy- making.
Tracy B.  Strong is Distinguished Professor in Political Science at the
University of San Diego, emeritus, and Professor of Political Theory and
Philosophy at the University of Southampton. He is the author of several
books including Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of Transfiguration
(currently in its third edition, University of Illinois Press, 2000), The Idea
of Political Theory: Reflections on the Self in Political Time and Space
(University of Notre Dame Press, 1990) and Jean- Jacques Rousseau and the
Politics of the Ordinary (second edition, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
2002). His most recent book is Politics Without Vision: Thinking without a
Banister in the Twentieth Century (University of Chicago Press, 2012, win-
ner of the David Easton Prize, 2013). He is currently working on a book on
music, language and politics in the period that extends from Rousseau to
Nietzsche, as well as a conceptual history of American citizenship, for which
he is the recipient of a Leverhulme Fellowship.
Jeremi Suri is Mack Brown Distinguished Professor for Global Leadership,
History, and Public Policy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the
author of several books on American foreign policy and American intellec-
tual history including Liberty’s Surest Guardian: American Nation- Building
from the Founders to Obama (Simon and Schuster, 2011), Henry Kissinger
and the American Century (Harvard University Press, 2009) and Power and
Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente (Harvard University
Press, 2005).
Vibeke Schou Tjalve is a senior researcher at The Danish Institute for
International Studies (DIIS), Copenhagen. She is the author of Realist
Strategies of Republican Peace: Morgenthau, Niebuhr and the Politics of
Patriotic Dissent (Palgrave, 2008) as well as numerous journal articles on
American history, identity, religion and security. Among her recent publica-
tions are ‘(Neo)Republican Security Governance: US Homeland Security and
Politics of Shared Responsibility’ (2013) International Political Sociology 7:1
(with Karen Lund Petersen) and ‘Reviving the Rhetoric of Realism: Politics
and Responsibility in Grand Strategy’ (2015) Security Studies 24:1 (with
Michael C. Williams). She is currently involved in a project on American
Realism and the Rise of the Right with Michael C. Williams.
Michael C. Williams is Professor in the Graduate School of Public and
International Affairs at the University of Ottawa. He is the author (with Rita
Abrahamsen) of Security Beyond the State: Private Security in International
Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2011), The Realist Tradition and the
Limits of International Relations (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and