U.S. Foreign Policy and the Other

Zusatztext

<p> John Quincy Adams warned Americans not to search abroad for monsters to destroy, yet such figures have frequently habituated the discourses of U.S. foreign policy.  This collection of essays focuses on counter-identities in American consciousness to explain how foreign policies and the discourse surrounding them develop.  Whether it is the seemingly ubiquitous evil of Hitler during World War II or the more complicated perceptions of communism throughout the Cold War, these essays illuminate the cultural contexts that constructed rival identities.  The authors challenge our understanding of others, looking at early applications of the concept in the eighteenth century to recent twenty-first century conflicts, establishing how this phenomenon is central to decision making through centuries of conflict.</p>

Autorenportrait

<p><strong>David Ryan</strong>is Professor and Chair of Modern History at University College Cork, Ireland.&#xa0; He is the author of<em>US Foreign Policy in World History</em> (2000) and<em>Frustrated Empire</em>:<em>US Foreign Policy, 9/11 to Iraq</em> (2007), and he has co-edited<em>Vietnam in Iraq: Tactics, Lessons, Legacies and Ghosts</em> (2007, with John Dumbrell) and<em>America and Iraq: Policy-Making, Intervention, and Regional Politics</em> (2009, with Patrick Kiely).</p>

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