Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Part 1. Analogies in U.S. Foreign Policy Chapter 3 Chapter 1. Thinking History: Analogies and Schemas in International Politics Chapter 4 Chapter 2. Fighting Evil: The Hebrew Shema and the Munich Analogy Chapter 5 Chapter 3. World War II Analogies in American Politics Part 6 Part 2. Neoconservatives and Historical Analogies Chapter 7 Chapter 4. Neoconservatives and the American Weimar Chapter 8 Chapter 5. Islam, the Holocaust, and the New Cold War Chapter 9 Chapter 6. Swastikas in the Sand?: Neoconservatives and the War in Iraq Part 10 Part 3. Anti-Americanism and the War on Terror Chapter 11 Chapter 7. Righteous Victims: The Pathologies of Anti-Americanism Chapter 12 Chapter 8. Near Enemies: The European Collaborators Chapter 13 Conclusions

About the Author

David B. MacDonald is a well-known scholar in the fields of international relations, genocide studies, and American politics. He taught at the Graduate School of Management Paris and was a senior lecturer in political studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand, before taking up his current appointment in the Political Science Department at the University of Guelph. He is the author of Identity Politics in the Age of Genocide: The Holocaust and Historical Representation and Balkan holocausts? Serbian and Croatian Propaganda and the War in Yugoslavia. He is also co-editor of and contributor to The Ethics of Foreign Policy.

Reviews

Combining conceptual rigor and detailed empirical application, this outstanding book shows how the ‘lessons of history’ continue to shape the perceptions of policies of American decision-makers. In particular, Thinking History, Fighting Evil provides some timely insight into the strategic miscalculations of the American neo-Conservatives during the Bush era.
*Robert Patman, University of Ontago*