Rethinking U.S. World Power
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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 Brenes is Co-Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy and Lecturer in History at Yale University, USA.Content
I1. Introduction: Rethinking U.S. World Power: Domestic Histories of U.S. Foreign Relations.- 2. Recentering the United States in the Historiography of American Foreign Relations.- 3. Isolationism/Internationalism: Concepts of American Global Power.- 4. U.S. Elites and Scientific Mobilization after World War II.- 5. Bread not Bullets: Mobilizing American Farmers for the Postwar World.- 6. Slow March to Jerusalem: Domestic Politics and the History of the U.S. Embassy in Israel.- 7. Too Sweet a Deal: American "Candy Men" and International Cocoa Negotiations in the 1960s.- 8. The Vietnam Moratorium and the Limits of Cold War Congressional Peace Politics.- 9. Framing the Narrative of the Indochinese Diaspora: The Citizens Commission on Indochinese Refugees, Domestic Political Actors, and U.S. Foreign Relations.- 10. The New York City Fiscal Crisis and the Domestic Originsof Globalization.- 10. Squandering the "Peace Dividend": Domestic Politics and the Political Economy of Defense Conversion, 1989-2000.