As globalization has deepened in recent years, historians have begun to see that many of the global challenges we face today first drew serious attention in the 1960s. This book examines how the Johnson presidency responded to these problems and draws out the lessons for today.
As globalization has deepened in recent years, historians have begun to see that many of the global challenges we face today first drew serious attention in the 1960s. This book examines how the Johnson presidency responded to these problems and draws out the lessons for today.
Francis J. Gavin is the Frank Stanton Chair in Nuclear Security Policy Studies in the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Gold, Dollars, and Power: The Politics of International Monetary Relations, 1958-1971 and Nuclear Statecraft: History and Strategy in Americas Atomic Age. Mark Atwood Lawrence is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is author of Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam and The Vietnam War: A Concise International History.
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* Acknowledgments * Contributors * Introduction, Francis J. Gavin and Mark Atwood Lawrence * Part I: Thinking Beyond East and West * 1. Lyndon Johnson and the Challenges of Economic Globalization, Daniel Sargent * 2. Toward a New Deal for the World? Lyndon Johnson's Aspirations to Renew the Twentieth Century's Pax Americana, Patrick O. Cohrs * 3. Moving Beyond the Cold War: The Johnson Administration, Bridge-Building, and Détente, Thomas A. Schwartz * Part II: Internationalizing the Great Society * 4. One Global War on Poverty: The Johnson Administration Fights Poverty at Home and Abroad, 1964-1968, Sheyda Jahanbani * 5. LBJ's Third War: The War on Hunger, Nick Cullather * 6. LBJ and World Population: Planning the Greater Society One Family at a Time, Matthew Connelly * 7. Globalizing the Great Society: Lyndon Johnson and the Pursuit of Smallpox Eradication, Erez Manela * * Part III: Adapting to a World of Scarcity * 8. Thinking Globally: U.S. Foreign Aid, Paul Ehrlich, and the Emergence of Environmentalism in the 1960s, Tom Robertson * 9. "More a Gun at Our Heads than Theirs": The 1967 Arab Oil Embargo, Third World Raw Materials Sovereignty, and American Diplomacy, Christopher R.W. Dietrich * Part IV: Shifting Moralities * 10. The Rise of Human Rights during the Johnson Years, Sarah B. Snyder * 11. Globalized Faith, Radicalized Religion, and the Domestic Sources of U.S. Foreign Policy, Andrew Preston
* Acknowledgments * Contributors * Introduction, Francis J. Gavin and Mark Atwood Lawrence * Part I: Thinking Beyond East and West * 1. Lyndon Johnson and the Challenges of Economic Globalization, Daniel Sargent * 2. Toward a New Deal for the World? Lyndon Johnson's Aspirations to Renew the Twentieth Century's Pax Americana, Patrick O. Cohrs * 3. Moving Beyond the Cold War: The Johnson Administration, Bridge-Building, and Détente, Thomas A. Schwartz * Part II: Internationalizing the Great Society * 4. One Global War on Poverty: The Johnson Administration Fights Poverty at Home and Abroad, 1964-1968, Sheyda Jahanbani * 5. LBJ's Third War: The War on Hunger, Nick Cullather * 6. LBJ and World Population: Planning the Greater Society One Family at a Time, Matthew Connelly * 7. Globalizing the Great Society: Lyndon Johnson and the Pursuit of Smallpox Eradication, Erez Manela * * Part III: Adapting to a World of Scarcity * 8. Thinking Globally: U.S. Foreign Aid, Paul Ehrlich, and the Emergence of Environmentalism in the 1960s, Tom Robertson * 9. "More a Gun at Our Heads than Theirs": The 1967 Arab Oil Embargo, Third World Raw Materials Sovereignty, and American Diplomacy, Christopher R.W. Dietrich * Part IV: Shifting Moralities * 10. The Rise of Human Rights during the Johnson Years, Sarah B. Snyder * 11. Globalized Faith, Radicalized Religion, and the Domestic Sources of U.S. Foreign Policy, Andrew Preston
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