Table of Contents

1 Traditions of American diplomacy: from colony to great power 2 “They don’t come out where you expect”: institutions of American diplomacy and the policy process 3 Economic interest and United States foreign policy 4 Imperialism, American style, 1890–1916 5 Wilsonian diplomacy in war and peace 6 The triumph of isolationism 7 The interpretive wars over the Cold War, 1945–60 8 From Kennedy to Nixon: the end of consensus 9 From détente to the Gulf 10 The United States and the rise of the Third World 11 Reconsidering the nuclear arms race: the past as prelude? 12 American diplomacy: retrospect and prospect

About the Author

Gordon Martel is Professor of History and Chair at the University of Northern British Columbia and Senior Research Fellow at De Montfort University. He is the editor of The Origins of the Second World War Reconsidered (1986), Modern Germany Reconsidered, 1870–1945 (1992) and of The New International History series also published by Routledge.

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