ABSTRACT

This important text offers a clear, concise and affordable narrative and analytical history of American foreign policy since the Spanish-American War. The book narrates events and policies but goes further to emphasize the international setting and constraints within which American policy-makers had to operate, the domestic pressures on those policy-makers, and the ideologies, preferences, and personal idiosyncrasies of the leaders themselves.

chapter Chapter 1|25 pages

The Spanish-American War and the Decision for Empire

chapter Chapter 2|21 pages

The Surge into Asia

Empire in the Philippines and the Open Door in China

chapter Chapter 3|23 pages

The Surge into Latin America

Varieties of American Empire

chapter Chapter 4|25 pages

Europe, America, and World War I

chapter Chapter 5|25 pages

The United States and the Peace of Versailles

chapter Chapter 6|24 pages

U.S. Foreign Policy Between the World Wars

chapter Chapter 7|26 pages

Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Coming of World War II

chapter Chapter 9|38 pages

Harry Truman and the Onset of the Cold War

chapter Chapter 10|28 pages

The New Look of Dwight D. Eisenhower

chapter Chapter 12|25 pages

The Vietnam War

chapter Chapter 13|24 pages

Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger

Manipulating the Balance of Power

chapter Chapter 14|25 pages

Time Bombs in the Middle East

chapter Chapter 16|15 pages

The End of the Cold War

chapter Chapter 17|37 pages

American Foreign Policy in the Aftermath of the Cold War

chapter Chapter 18|21 pages

9/11

chapter Chapter 19|32 pages

Barack Obama and the Post 9/11 World