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Shows how the U.S. government assumed a leadership position in world affairs and introduced innovative policies to ensure the maintenance of international peace between 1921 and 1933.

Table of Contents

Prologue The Impact of the Great War of 1914-18 on American Foreign Policy Charles Evans Hughes Frank Billings Kellogg Henry Lewis Stimson

About the Author

MARGOT LOURIA is an independent researcher with extensive experience in political science, government, and history./e She has taught at George Washington University, worked for nonprofit research organizations and held positions in the federal government. For the last ten years she has conducted research on American diplomacy in the inter-world period in the United States and abroad.

Reviews

?All in all, this book takes its place with important earlier studies of the same era....Recommended for upper-division undergraduates and above.?-Choice

?The book by Margot Louria is an excellent demolition of the old myth that the United States pursued an isolationist foreign policy during the 1920's. She demonstrates conclusively that the United States played a very active role in the world, and support this position with detailed examinations...?-The International History Review

?The book offers a strong succinct account of the issues confronting the Washington Conference of 1921-22.... In analyzing Stimson's diplomacy, Louria effectively discusses the Soviet-Chinese border tensions of 1929, the 1930 London naval conference, and the 1931 London economic parley.... Louria has made a contribution, helping to demolish many myths concerning supposed American inertness in the twenties.?-Peace and Change: A Journal of Peace Research

"All in all, this book takes its place with important earlier studies of the same era....Recommended for upper-division undergraduates and above."-Choice

"The book by Margot Louria is an excellent demolition of the old myth that the United States pursued an isolationist foreign policy during the 1920's. She demonstrates conclusively that the United States played a very active role in the world, and support this position with detailed examinations..."-The International History Review

"The book offers a strong succinct account of the issues confronting the Washington Conference of 1921-22.... In analyzing Stimson's diplomacy, Louria effectively discusses the Soviet-Chinese border tensions of 1929, the 1930 London naval conference, and the 1931 London economic parley.... Louria has made a contribution, helping to demolish many myths concerning supposed American inertness in the twenties."-Peace and Change: A Journal of Peace Research