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Rethinking U.S. World Power

Domestic Histories of U.S. Foreign Relations

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Editors:
  1. Daniel Bessner

    1. University of Washington, Seattle, USA

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  2. Michael Brenes

    1. Yale University, Hamden, USA

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  • Counters the prevailing trends in US historiography to de-center US as leading global power
  • Argues the US remains a key player in geopolitical theatre, in particular the Global South
  • Examines the relationship between US domestic processes and US international relations

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Introduction: Rethinking U.S. World Power—Domestic Histories of U.S. Foreign Relations

    • Daniel Bessner, Michael Brenes
    Pages 1-14

  3. Recentering the United States in the Historiography of American Foreign Relations

    • Daniel Bessner, Fredrik Logevall
    Pages 15-47

  4. Internationalism/Isolationism: Concepts of American Global Power

    • Stephen Wertheim
    Pages 49-88

  5. U.S. Elites and Scientific Mobilization After World War II

    • Daniel Bessner
    Pages 89-110

  6. Bread Not Bullets: Mobilizing American Farmers for the Postwar World

    • Kaete O’Connell
    Pages 111-138

  7. Slow March to Jerusalem: Domestic Politics and the History of the U.S. Embassy in Israel

    • Daniel G. Hummel
    Pages 139-161

  8. Too Sweet a Deal: American “Candy Men” and International Cocoa Negotiations in the 1960s

    • Vivien Chang
    Pages 163-184

  9. The Vietnam Moratorium and the Limits of Cold War Congressional Peace Politics

    • Michael Koncewicz
    Pages 185-208

  10. Framing the Narrative of the Indochinese Diaspora: The Citizens Commission on Indochinese Refugees, Domestic Political Actors, and U.S. Foreign Relations

    • Amanda C. Demmer
    Pages 209-240

  11. The New York City Fiscal Crisis and the Domestic Origins of Globalization

    • Sarah Miller-Davenport
    Pages 241-261

  12. Abandoning the Peace Dividend: Bill Clinton and the Political Economy of Defense Conversion, 1989–2000

    • Michael Brenes
    Pages 263-279

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 281-294
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About this book

Since the late-1990s, diplomatic historians have emphasized the importance of international and transnational processes, flows, and events to the history of the United States in the world. Rethinking U.S. World Power provides an alternative to these scholarly frameworks by assembling a diverse group of historians to explore the impact of the United States and its domestic history on U.S. foreign relations and world affairs. In so doing, the collection underlines that, even in a global age, domestic politics and phenomena were crucial to the history of U.S. foreign policy and international relations more broadly.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Washington, Seattle, USA

    Daniel Bessner

  • Yale University, Hamden, USA

    Michael Brenes

About the editors

Daniel Bessner is the Annett H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Associate Professor in American Foreign Policy in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, USA.

Michael Brenesis Co-Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy and Lecturer in History at Yale University, USA.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Rethinking U.S. World Power

  • Book Subtitle: Domestic Histories of U.S. Foreign Relations

  • Editors: Daniel Bessner, Michael Brenes

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49677-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-49676-9Published: 07 March 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-49679-0Due: 07 April 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-49677-6Published: 06 March 2024

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 294

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: US History, Modern History, International Relations

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