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OverviewA new and unique framework for understanding the history of the foreign policy of the United States.The United States is now nearly 250 years old. It arose from humble beginnings, as a strip of mostly agrarian and sparsely populated English colonies on the northeastern edge of the New World, far removed from the centers of power in Europe. Today, it is the world's most powerful country, with its largest economy and most powerful military. How did America achieve this status?In The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy, Michael Mandelbaum offers a new framework for understanding the evolution of the foreign policy of the United States. He divides that evolution into four distinct periods, with each defined by the consistent increase in American power relative to other countries. His history of the four periods features engaging accounts of the major events and important personalities in the foreign policy of each era. Throughout, Mandelbaum highlights fundamental continuities in the goals of American foreign policy and in the way that policy was adopted and implemented. He portrays the United States, in its ascent, first as a weak power, from 1765 to 1865, then as a great power between 1865 and 1945, next as a superpower in the years 1945 to 1990, and finally as the world's sole hyperpower, from 1990 to 2015. He also presents three features of American foreign policy that are found in every era: first, the goal of disseminating the political ideas Americans have embraced from the first; second, the use of economic instruments in pursuit of the country's foreign policy goals; and third, a process for formulating policy and implementing decisions shaped by considerable popular influence. American foreign policy, as he puts it, has been unusually ideological, unusually economic, and unusually democratic.A sweeping and elegantly written history, The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy will reshape our understanding of how the United States became the most powerful nation the world has ever seen. Full Product DetailsAuthor: MandelbaumPublisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc ISBN: 9780197746929ISBN 10: 0197746926 Pages: 624 Publication Date: 30 January 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: To order  Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Part One: Weak Power, 1765-1865 Chapter 1: Independence, 1765-1788 Chapter 2: In the Shadow of the French Revolution, 1788-1815 Chapter 3: The Continental Republic, 1815-1865 Part Two: Great Power, 1865-1945 Chapter 4: Great-Power Debut, 1865-1914 Chapter 5: The Offshore Balancer, 1914-1933 Chapter 6: The Arsenal of Democracy, 1933-1945 Part Three: Superpower, 1945-1990 Chapter 7: The Contest of Systems, 1945-1953 Chapter 8: War Improbable, Peace Impossible, 1953-1979 Chapter 9: A Superpower Dies in Bed, 1979-1990 Part Four: Hyperpower, 1990-2015 Chapter 10: The New World Order, 1990-2001 Chapter 11: Back to the Future, 2001-2015 Notes IndexReviewsAuthor InformationMichael Mandelbaum is the Christian A. Herter Professor Emeritus of American Foreign Policy at The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He is the author of sixteen previous books, including Mission Failure (Oxford, 2016) The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth (Oxford, 2019), and, with Thomas L. Friedman, That Used to Be Us (2011). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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