Hilde Eliassen Restad

American Exceptionalism (eBook, ePUB)

An Idea that Made a Nation and Remade the World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How does American exceptionalism shape American foreign policy? Conventional wisdom states that American exceptionalism comes in two variations - the exemplary version and the missionary version.

Being exceptional, experts in U.S. foreign policy argue, means that you either withdraw from the world like an isolated but inspiring "city upon a hill," or that you are called upon to actively lead the rest of the world to a better future. In her book, Hilde Eliassen Restad challenges this assumption, arguing that U.S. history has displayed a remarkably constant foreign policy tradition, which she labels unilateral internationalism. The United States, Restad argues, has not vacillated between an "exemplary" and a "missionary" identity. Instead, the United States developed an exceptionalist identity that, while idealizing the United States as an exemplary "city upon a hill," more often than not errs on the side of the missionary crusade in its foreign policy. Utilizing the latest historiography in the study of U.S. foreign relations, the book updates political science scholarship and sheds new light on the role American exceptionalism has played - and continues to play - in shaping America's role in the world.

This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of US foreign policy, security studies, and American politics.

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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.