Isolationism : a history of America's efforts to shield itself from the world /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kupchan, Charles (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
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Table of Contents:
  • American isolationism: past as prelude?
  • An anatomy of isolationism
  • Part I: The era of isolationism, 1789-1898. The Revolutionary era: contemplating nonentanglement
  • From the French Revolution to the War of 1812: isolationism as doctrine
  • Westward expansion and the Monroe Doctrine: the limits of hemispheric ambition
  • The Civil War, Reconstruction, and the rise of American power: restraint amid ascent
  • Part II: The defeat of realist and idealist internationalism, 1898-1941. The Spanish-American War and the onset of imperial ambition
  • Republican imperialism and the isolationist backlash
  • Wilsonian idealism and the isolationist backlash
  • The 1920s: influence without responsibility
  • From the Great Depression to Pearl Harbor: delusions of strategic immunity
  • Part III: The rise and fall of liberal internationalism, 1941-2020. World War II and the Cold War: the era of liberal internationalism
  • The end of the Cold War, overreach, and the isolationist comeback
  • Where isolationism and liberal internationalism meet: the search for a middle ground.