Since the late-1990s, diplomatic historians have emphasized the importance of international and transnational processes, flows, and events to the history of the United States in the world. Rethinking U.S. World Power provides an alternative to these scholarly frameworks by assembling a diverse group of historians to explore the impact of the United States and its domestic history on U.S. foreign relations and world affairs. In so doing, the collection underlines that, even in a global age, domestic politics and phenomena were crucial to the history of U.S. foreign policy and international relations more broadly.
I1. Introduction: Rethinking U.S. World Power: Domestic Histories
of U.S. Foreign Relations.- 2. Recentering the United States in the
Historiography of American Foreign
Relations.- 3. Isolationism/Internationalism: Concepts of American Global
Power.- 4. U.S. Elites and Scientific Mobilization after World War
II.- 5. Bread not Bullets: Mobilizing American Farmers for the Postwar
World.- 6. Slow March to Jerusalem: Domestic Politics and the History of the
U.S. Embassy in Israel.- 7. Too Sweet a Deal: American Candy Men and
International Cocoa Negotiations in the 1960s.- 8. The Vietnam Moratorium and
the Limits of Cold War Congressional Peace Politics.- 9. Framing the
Narrative of the Indochinese Diaspora: The Citizens Commission on Indochinese
Refugees, Domestic Political Actors, and U.S. Foreign Relations.- 10. The New
York City Fiscal Crisis and the Domestic Originsof Globalization.- 10.
Squandering the Peace Dividend: Domestic Politics and the Political Economy
of Defense Conversion, 1989-2000.
Daniel Bessner is the Annett H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Associate Professor in American Foreign Policy in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, USA.
Michael Brenesis Co-Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy and Lecturer in History at Yale University, USA.
