Belief in the United States as a force for good in the world runs deep. Yet an honest consideration reveals a history marred by great crimes and ordinary errors, alongside many ...

This book explores the conditions of international relations from the end of WWII to the present, focusing on the American determination to provide world leadership.

'Happily the new, four-volume book provides an opportunity to scan the past two centuries for indications of the shape of foreign policy in the post-Cold War world. Each of the ...

A comprehensive review of the foreign policy of the Lyndon Johnson era demonstrates U.S. concern not only with the Soviet Union, Europe, and nuclear weapons issues, but the ...

A balanced analysis of a sensitive subject: Hong Kong's future prospects.

Between the American Civil War and the outbreak of world War I, global history was transformed by two events: the United States's rise to the status of a great world power ...

Tracing American foreign relations from the colonial era to the end of the Civil war, this volume describes and explains, in the diplomatic context, the process by which the ...