03539nam 2200517 450 991079470230332120220302035458.01-4744-0132-51-4744-0133-310.1515/9781474401326(CKB)4340000000196106(MiAaPQ)EBC5013829(DE-B1597)615773(DE-B1597)9781474401326(OCoLC)1301548464(EXLCZ)99434000000019610620171006h20172017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe open door era united states foreign policy in the twentieth century 2017 /Michael Patrick Cullinane and Alex GoodallEdinburgh, [Scotland] :Edinburgh University Press,2017.©20171 online resource (225 pages) illustrations, tablesBAAS Paperbacks1-4774-0130-X 1-4744-0130-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Defi ning the Open Door Era -- 1 The Open Door Idea, 1893–1904 -- 2 Imposing the Open Door, 1904–17 -- 3 The Global Open Door, 1917–29 -- 4 The Open Door in a Closed World, 1929–45 -- 5 The Open Door and the Cold War, 1945–68 -- 6 The Open Door Triumphant, 1968–91 -- Conclusion: Toward an Open Door Future? -- Select Bibliography -- IndexExamines the Open Door, the most influential U.S. foreign policy of the twentieth centuryIn 1899, U.S. Secretary of State John Hay wrote six world powers calling for an ‘Open Door’ in China that would guarantee equal trading opportunities, curtail colonial annexation, and prevent conflict in the Far East. Within a year, the region had succumbed to renewed colonisation and war, but despite the apparent failure of Hay’s diplomacy, the ideal of the Open Door emerged as the central component of U.S. foreign policy in the twentieth century. Just as visions of ‘Manifest Destiny’ shaped continental expansion in the nineteenth century, Woodrow Wilson used the Open Door to make the case for a world ‘safe for democracy’, Franklin Roosevelt developed it to inspire the fight against totalitarianism and imperialism, and Cold War containment policy envisioned international communism as the latest threat to a global system built upon peace, openness, and exchange. In a concise yet wide-ranging examination of its origins and development, readers will discover how the idea of the Open Door came to define the American Century.Key FeaturesUncovers the ideological wellspring of U.S. foreign policy in the twentieth centuryPresents debates over U.S. foreign policy, including the ‘Wisconsin School’ critique of the Open Door as a mechanism of informal empireReveals both the consistency of U.S. foreign policy thinking and offers a deeper context to critical foreign policy decisionsContextulises the roots of contemporary U.S. policyBAAS paperbacks.HISTORY / GeneralbisacshUnited StatesForeign relations20th centuryHISTORY / General.327.73Cullinane Michael Patrick848091Goodall AlexMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910794702303321The open door era3787861UNINA