Hilde Eliassen Restad

American Exceptionalism (eBook, ePUB)

An Idea that Made a Nation and Remade the World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a different account of the relationship between the American identity of exceptionalism and U.S. foreign policy. Conventional wisdom suggests that a "schizophrenic" American exceptionalist identity has inspired a dichotomous foreign policy tradition that cycles between isolationism and internationalism. Challenging this view the author argues that there instead has been a continuous and strong unilateral internationalist foreign policy throughout U.S. history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135048587
• Artikelnr.: 42037474

Autorenporträt

Hilde Eliassen Restad is Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Bjørknes College in Oslo, Norway. A Fulbright alumna, she has a Ph.D. in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia, and is frequently used as a commentator on U.S. politics in Norway.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction: How to be an American PART I: The Distinction: A Superior
Nation is Born, 2. Challenging the conventional depiction of American
identity, 3. Challenging the conventional depiction of U.S. foreign policy
PART II The Mission: A Special Role Cast for the United States in the Play
of World History, 4. The 'turn-around' theory and the many meanings of
multilateral, 5. Early twentieth century internationalism: The triumph of
Henry Cabot Lodge over Woodrow Wilson, 6. Turn-around? The triumph of
hegemony over multilateralism PART III: The Resistance: American
Exceptionalism and the Laws of History 7. From the post-Cold War order to
the war on terror: American exceptionalism reaffirmed, 8. Conclusion:
American exceptionalism today.