Ideas and American Foreign Policy

A Reader
Herausgeber: Bacevich, Andrew

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Produktbeschreibung

Andrew Bacevich's Ideas and American Foreign Policy is a broad-ranging reader that serves as a comprehensive overview of the role of ideas in American foreign policy over the entirety of the nation's history. Beginning with the founding of Anglo-America and concludes with the post-9/11 era, this will be an essential volume for anyone seeking a balanced and argument-driven account of the evolution of US foreign policy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 179mm x 48mm
• Gewicht: 985g
• ISBN-13: 9780190645403
• ISBN-10: 0190645407
• Artikelnr.: 50990011

Autorenporträt

Andrew J. Bacevich is Professor Emeritus of History and International Relations at Boston University. A graduate of West Point and a Vietnam Veteran, he has a doctorate in history from Princeton and was a Bush Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. He is the author of several books, including Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War, and the New York Times best-seller The Limits of Power.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* I. Founding Tradition
* John Winthrop, "A Model of Christian Charity" (1630)
* Cotton Mather, "Theopolis Americana" (1709)
* Samuel Davies, "Religion and Patriotism the Constituents of a Good
Soldier" (1755)
* Patrick Henry, "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" (1775)
* Tom Paine, "Common Sense" (1776)
* Ezra Stiles, "The United States Elevated to Glory and Honor," (1783)
* Publius [Alexander Hamilton], "The Federalist No. 11" (1787)
* George Washington, "Farewell Address" (1797)
* II. Young Republic
* Thomas Jefferson "Third Annual Message" (1803)
* John Quincy Adams, "Speech on Independence Day" (1821)
* James Monroe, "The Monroe Doctrine" (1823)
* Andrew Jackson, "On Indian Removal" (1830)
* William Penn [Jeremiah Everts], "Present Crisis in the Condition of
the American Indians" (1830)
* John Ross, "Letter to Congress" (1836)
* William Wirt, "The Triumph of Liberty in France" (1830)
* Alexis de Tocqueville, "Conduct of Foreign Affairs by the American
Democracy," Democracy in America (1835)
* William Ellery Channing, "A Letter to the Honorable Henry Clay"
(1837)
* John L. O'Sullivan, "The Great Nation of Futurity," The United States
Magazine and Democratic Review (November 1839)
* John L. O'Sullivan, "Annexation," The United States Magazine and
Democratic Review (July-August 1845)
* Walt Whitman, "Our Territory on the Pacific," Brooklyn Daily Eagle
(1846)
* Thomas Corwin, "On the Mexican War" (1847)
* Abraham Lincoln, "The War with Mexico" (1848)
* Millard Fillmore, "Letter to the Emperor of Japan" (1853)
* Walt Whitman, "A Broadway Pageant," Blades of Grass (1860)
* Abraham Lincoln, "Gettysburg Address" (1863)
* III. Toward Empire
* John Fiske, "Manifest Destiny," Harper's New Monthly Magazine (March
1885)
* Josiah Strong, Our Country (1885)
* Alfred Thayer Mahan, "The United States Looking Outward," The
Atlantic Monthly (December 1890)
* Stephen B. Luce, "The Benefits of War" North American Review
(December 1891)
* Frederick Jackson Turner, "The Significance of the Frontier in
American History" (1893)
* Albert J. Beveridge, "The March of the Flag" (1898)
* William Graham Sumner, "On Empire and the Philippines" (1898)
* Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden," New York Sun (February 10,
1899)
* Finley Peter Dunne, "Expansion," Mr. Dooley in the Hearts of His
Countrymen (1899)
* Jane Addams, "Democracy or Militarism" (1899)
* Andrew Carnegie, "America versus Imperialism," North American Review
(January 1899)
* Albert J. Beveridge, "In Support of an American Empire" (1900)
* Mark Twain, "Battle Hymn of the Republic, Updated" (1900)
* William Jennings Bryan, "Imperialism (Flag of an Empire)" (1900)
* IV. Rising Power
* John Hay, "First Open Door Note" (1899)
* Fifty-Sixth Congress, "The Platt Amendment" (1901)
* Theodore Roosevelt, "Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine" (1904)
* Herbert Croly, The Promise of American Life (1909)
* Homer Lea, The Valor of Ignorance (1909)
* William James, "The Moral Equivalent of War," McClure's Magazine
(August 1910)
* William Howard Taft, "Dollar Diplomacy" (1912)
* V. Fateful Embrace
* Woodrow Wilson, "Speech in Philadelphia" (1915)
* Woman's Peace Party, "Preamble" (1915)
* Emma Goldman, "Preparedness, the Road to Universal Slaughter,"
Mother Earth (December 1915)
* Woodrow Wilson, "Democracy of Business" (1916)
* Woodrow Wilson, "Peace Without Victory" (1917)
* Woodrow Wilson, "War Message" (1917)
* George Norris, "Against Entry into War" (1917)
* Robert LaFollette, "War with Germany" (1917)
* George M. Cohan, "Over There" (1917)
* Woodrow Wilson, "Address on Flag Day" (1917)
* Randolph Bourne, "The State" (1918)
* Eugene V. Debs, "Canton, Ohio Anti-War Speech" (1918)
* Woodrow Wilson, "League of Nations Speech" (1919)
* Woodrow Wilson, "Pueblo, Colorado Speech" (1919)
* Henry Cabot Lodge, "Opposing the League of Nations" (1919)
* William E. Borah, "The League of Nations" (1919)
* VI. Interwar
* United States Senate, "Report of the Overman Committee" (1919)
* Madison Grant, "Introduction" to Lothrop Stoddard, Rising Tide of
Color (1921)
* Charles Evans Hughes, "The Conference on Limitation of Armament"
(1921)
* Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)
* Henry L. Stimson, "Letter to Senator Borah" (1932)
* H. C. Engelbrecht and F. C. Hanighen, Merchants of Death (1934)
* Smedley Butler, War Is a Racket (1935)
* Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Chatauqua Speech" (1936)
* VII. The Summons
* Charles A. Beard, "Giddy Minds and Foreign Quarrels," Harper's
(September 1939)
* Charles Lindbergh, "Neutrality and War" (1939)
* Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Fireside Chat" (1940)
* "Step by Step - The War," Social Justice (September 2, 1940)
* Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, "Statement of
Policy" (1941)
* Charles Lindbergh, "Des Moines Speech" (1941)
* Franklin D. Roosevelt, "The Four Freedoms" (1941)
* Henry Luce, "The American Century," Life (February 17, 1941)
* Walter Lippmann, U. S. Foreign Policy: Shield of the Republic (1943)
* VIII. Crusade
* Harry S Truman, "The Truman Doctrine" (1947)
* X [George F. Kennan], "The Sources of Soviet Conduct," Foreign
Affairs (July 1947)
* Eleanor Roosevelt, "Statement to the United Nations' General Assembly
on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights" (1948)
* Henry A. Wallace, "My Commitments" (1948)
* Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Vital Center: The Politics of Freedom
(1949)
* NSC 68: "United States Objectives and Programs for National Security"
(1950)
* Douglas MacArthur, "Farewell Address to Congress" (1951)
* Reinhold Niebuhr, The Irony of American History (1952)
* W. W. Rostow, The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist
Manifesto (1960)
* John F. Kennedy, "Inaugural Address" (1961)
* Lyndon Baines Johnson, "Peace without Conquest" (1965)
* IX. Challenging the Consensus
* Graham Greene, The Quiet American (1955)
* C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite (1956)
* William Appleman Williams, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (1959)
* Dwight D. Eisenhower, "Farewell Address to the Nation" (1961)
* Students for a Democratic Society, "The Port Huron Statement" (1962)
* Barry Goldwater, "Acceptance Speech" (1964)
* J. William Fulbright, "The Fatal Arrogance of Power" (May 15, 1966)
* Martin Luther King, "Declaration of Independence from the War in
Vietnam" (1967)
* Country Joe and the Fish, "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag" (1967)
* John Kerry, "Statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee"
(1971)
* Jimmy Carter, "Crisis of Confidence" (July 15, 1979)
* X. Grappling with Total War
* John Cuthbert Ford, SJ, "The Morality of Obliteration Bombing,"
Theological Studies (1944)
* Harry S. Truman, "Statement by the President Announcing the Use of
the A-Bomb at Hiroshima" (1945)
* Dorothy Day, "The Catholic Worker Response to Hiroshima," The
Catholic Worker (September 1945)
* Bernard Brodie, "Implications for Military Policy" (1946)
* John Foster Dulles, "The Evolution of Foreign Policy" (1954)
* Albert Wohlstetter, "Delicate Balance of Terror" (1958)
* John F. Kennedy, "American University Speech" (1963)
* Curtis LeMay, "Graduation Address, United States Air Force Academy"
(1964)
* Dr. Strangelove, a film by Stanley Kubrick (1964) [excerpt from
script]
* Ronald Reagan, "Star Wars Speech" (1983)
* U.S. Catholic Bishops, "The Challenge of Peace" (1983)
* Carl Sagan, "Nuclear War and Climatic Catastrophe," Foreign Affairs
(Winter 1983 / 1984)
* XI. The Passing of the Cold War
* Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, "Dictatorships and Double Standards,"
Commentary (November 1979)
* Ronald Reagan, "Time to Recapture Our Destiny" (July 17, 1980)
* Caspar Weinberger, "The Uses of Military Power" (1984)
* Lee Greenwood, "God Bless the USA" (1984)
* Francis Fukuyama, "The End of History?" The National Interest
(Summer 1989)
* Charles Krauthammer, "The Unipolar Moment," Foreign Affairs (America
and the World 1990 / 1991)
* Samuel Huntington, "The Clash of Civilizations?" Foreign Affairs
(Summer 1993)
* Robert Kaplan, "The Coming Anarchy," The Atlantic Monthly (February
1994)
* Thomas L. Friedman, "A Manifesto for the Fast World," New York Times
Magazine (March 28, 1999)
* Anthony Lake, "From Containment to Enlargement" (1993)
* XII. Impact of 9/11
* George W. Bush, "Address to a Joint Session of Congress" (2001)
* George W. Bush, "State of the Union Address" (2002)
* George W. Bush, "West Point Commencement Speech" (2002)
* Bernard Lewis, "A Time for Toppling," Wall Street Journal (September
28, 2002)
* Frum and Perle, An End to Evil (2004)
* Norman Podhoretz, "World War IV: How It Started, What It Means, Why
We Have To Win," Commentary (September 2004)
* George W. Bush, "Second Inaugural Address" (January 20, 2005)
* XIII. Dissent after 9/11
* Susan Sontag, "Tuesday and After," The New Yorker (September 24,
2001)
* Barack Obama, "Weighing the Costs of War in Iraq" (2002)
* Stanley Hauerwas, "September 11, 2001: A Pacifist Response,"
Southern Atlantic Quarterly (Spring 2002)
* Immanuel Wallerstein, "The Eagle Has Crash Landed," Foreign Policy
(July / August 2002)
* Wendell Berry, "A Citizen's Response to the National Security
Strategy of the United States of America," Orion Magazine (March /
April 2003)
* Robert Byrd, "America's Image in the World" (2003)
* Sheldon Wolin, "Inverted Totalitarianism," The Nation (May 1, 2003)
* Patrick Buchanan, "No End To War," The American Conservative (March
1, 2004)
* Peter Beinart, "A Fighting Faith," The New Republic (December 13,
2004)
* Andrew J. Bacevich, "Twilight of the Republic?" Commonweal (November
27, 2006)
* XIV. Chastened Superpower
* Robert Kagan, "Superpowers Don't Get To Retire," The New Republic
(May 26, 2014)
* Donald J. Trump, "Presidential Campaign Announcement" (2015)
* John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, "The Case for Offshore
Balancing," Foreign Affairs (July / August 2016)
* Donald J. Trump, "Inaugural Address" (January 20, 2017)
* Index