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Title

The American encounter : the United States and the making of the modern world : essays from 75 years of Foreign affairs / edited by James F. Hoge, Jr. and Fareed Zakaria.

Publication

New York : BasicBooks, c1997.

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Additional Authors

• Hoge, James F.
• Zakaria, Fareed

Description

xii, 644 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

Since its founding in 1922, Foreign Affairs has been the world's leading journal of international relations, a distinction earned by providing the most insightful and far-reaching commentary on global politics and economic policy available anywhere. As America has played a pivotal role in determining the shape of the world in the twentieth century, Foreign Affairs and its contributors have been at the center of each debate. In The American Encounter, readers will find landmark essays in a unique intellectual history of this century and of the extraordinary role that America has played in it.

Uniform Title

Foreign affairs (New York)

Subject

• World politics > 20th century
• United States > Foreign relations > 20th century

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• America's past, America's future : an introduction / James F. Hoge, Jr., and Fareed Zakaria -- A requisite for the success of popular diplomacy / Elihu Root -- After Versailles, the 1920s: Germany since the war / Karl Kautsky ; Nationalism and internationalism / Alfred E. Zimmern ; Lenin / Victor Chernov ; Concerning Senator Borah / Walter Lippmann -- The gathering storm, the 1930s: The Great Depression / Edwin F. Gay ; Imperialism and communism / Nikolai Bukharin ; Of liberty / Benedetto Croce ; Dictatorship of the mind / Heinrich Mann ; Civilization on trial / H.G. Wells -- War and victory, the 1940s: A turning point in history / Arnold J. Toynbee ; Pacifism and democracy / Julien Benda ; The critic turns actor / James B. Reston ; The challenge to Americans / Henry L. Stimson --^
• A cold war, the 1950s: The sources of Soviet conduct / X [George F. Kennan] ; Reflections on American diplomacy / Henry A. Kissinger ; The delicate balance of terror / Albert Wohlstetter ; The silence in Russian culture / Isaiah Berlin ; The realities in Africa : European profit of Negro development? / W.E.B. Du Bois ; The underdeveloped and the overdeveloped / Margaret Mead ; Wormword and gall : an introspective note on American diplomacy / A. Whitney Griswold -- The quagmire of Vietnam, the 1960s: To intervene or not to intervene / Hans J. Morgenthau ; The Viet Nam negotiations / Henry A. Kissinger ; American intellectuals and foreign policy / Irving Kristol ; A Viet Nam reappraisal : the personal history of one man's view and how it evolved / Clark M. Clifford --^
• An age of limits, the 1970s: Isloated America / Hamilton Fish Armstrong ; The strategy of terrorism / David Fromkin ; The end of pan-Arabism / Fouad Ajami ; A monetary system for the future / Richard N. Cooper ; Human rights and the AMerican tradition / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. ; Human rights and forteign policy : a proposal / William F. Buckley, Jr. -- The collapse of communism, the 1980s: Misconceptions about Russia are a threat to America / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ; Can the Soviet Union reform? / Richard Pipes ; Communism in Russian history / George F. Kennan ; The Cold War and its aftermath / Zbigniew Brzezinski --^
• An uncertain new order, the 1990s: Technology and sovereignty / Walter B. Wriston ; Power shift / Jessica T. Mathews ; The bent twig : a note on nationalism / Isaiah Berlin ; The clash of civilizatons? / Samuel P. Huntington ; The last ambassador : a memoir of the collapse of Yugoslavia / Warren Zimmermann ; Competitiveness : a dangerous obsession / Paul Krugman ; Culture is destiny : a conversation with Lee Kuan Yew / Fareed Zakaria.

ISBN

046500170X

LCCN

^^^97020120^

OCLC

36900898

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library