U.S. Foreign Policy and the Other

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78238-439-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 521 g

John Quincy Adams warned Americans not to search abroad for monsters to destroy, yet such figures have frequently habituated the discourses of U.S. foreign policy.  This collection of essays focuses on counter-identities in American consciousness to explain how foreign policies and the discourse surrounding them develop.  Whether it is the seemingly ubiquitous evil of Hitler during World War II or the more complicated perceptions of communism throughout the Cold War, these essays illuminate the cultural contexts that constructed rival identities.  The authors challenge our understanding of “others,” looking at early applications of the concept in the eighteenth century to recent twenty-first century conflicts, establishing how this phenomenon is central to decision making through centuries of conflict.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cullinane, Michael Patrick

Ryan, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Außenpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Introduction

Michael Patrick Cullinane & David Ryan

Chapter 1. “No Savage Shall Inherit the Land”: The Indian Enemy Other, Indiscriminate Warfare, and American National Identity, 1607-1783

Walter L. Hixson

Chapter 2. Alterity and the Production of Identity in the Early Modern British American Empire and the Early United States

Jack P. Greene

Chapter 3. Identity, Alterity and the “Growing Plant” of Monroeism in U.S. Foreign Policy Ideology

Marco Mariano

Chapter 4. Consumerist Geographies and the Politics of Othering

Kristin Hoganson

Chapter 5. Others Ourselves: The American Identity Crisis after the War of 1898

Michael Patrick Cullinane

Chapter 6. The Others in Wilsonianism

Lloyd Ambrosius

Chapter 7. The Nazis and U.S. Foreign Policy Debates: History, Lessons and Analogies

Michaela Hoenicke Moore

Chapter 8. How Eleanor Roosevelt’s Orientalism Othered the Palestinians

Geraldine Kidd

Chapter 9. Necessary Constructions: The Other in the Cold War and After

David Ryan

Chapter 10. Obliterating Distance: The Vietnam War Photography of Philip Jones Griffiths

Liam Kennedy

Chapter 11. Remnants of Empire: Civilization, Torture and Racism in the War on Terrorism

Arshin Adib-Moghaddam

Select Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ryan, David
David Ryan is Professor and Chair of Modern History at University College Cork, Ireland.  He is the author of US Foreign Policy in World History (2000) and Frustrated Empire:US Foreign Policy, 9/11 to Iraq (2007), and he has co-edited Vietnam in Iraq: Tactics, Lessons, Legacies and Ghosts (2007, with John Dumbrell) and America and Iraq: Policy-Making, Intervention, and Regional Politics (2009, with Patrick Kiely).

Cullinane, Michael Patrick
Michael Patrick Cullinane is Reader in U.S. history at Northumbria University. He is the author of Liberty and American Anti-Imperialism, 1898-1909 (2012) and numerous articles on diplomatic history in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

Michael Patrick Cullinane is Reader in U.S. history at Northumbria University. He is the author of Liberty and American Anti-Imperialism, 1898-1909 (2012) and numerous articles on diplomatic history in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.