LEADER 04598nam 2200733 450 001 9910460627803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-5017-0177-0 010 $a1-5017-0178-9 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501701788 035 $a(CKB)3710000000497182 035 $a(EBL)4189254 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001571216 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16219289 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001571216 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)13409364 035 $a(PQKB)10580936 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4189254 035 $a(OCoLC)1080549820 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58579 035 $a(DE-B1597)496461 035 $a(OCoLC)1041997072 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501701788 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4189254 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11129091 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL869942 035 $a(OCoLC)927444455 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000497182 100 $a20151223h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA sense of power $ethe roots of America's global role /$fJohn A. Thompson 210 1$aIthaca, New York ;$aLondon, [England] :$cCornell University Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (360 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8014-4789-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: THE PROBLEM --$t1. A NEW SENSE OF POWER --$t2. ADVANCE AND RETREAT, 1914-1920 --$t3. A RESTRAINED SUPERPOWER, 1920-1938 --$t4. LESSENING RESTRAINT, 1938-1941 --$t5. FULL-SCALE INVOLVEMENT, 1941-1945 --$t6. ASSUMING "THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF POWER," 1945-1952 --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aWhy has the United States assumed so extensive and costly a role in world affairs over the last hundred years? The two most common answers to this question are "because it could" and "because it had to." Neither answer will do, according to this challenging re-assessment of the way that America came to assume its global role. The country's vast economic resources gave it the capacity to exercise great influence abroad, but Americans were long reluctant to meet the costs of wielding that power. Neither the country's safety from foreign attack nor its economic well-being required the achievement of ambitious foreign policy objectives. A Sense of Power, John A. Thompson takes a long view of America's dramatic rise as a world power, from the late nineteenth century into the post-World War II era. How, and more importantly why, has America come to play such a dominant role in world affairs? There is, he argues, no simple answer. Thompson challenges conventional explanations of America's involvement in World War I and World War II, seeing neither the requirements of national security nor economic interests as determining. He shows how American leaders from Wilson to Truman developed an ever more capacious understanding of the national interest, and why by the 1940's most Americans came to support the price tag, in blood and treasure, attached to strenuous efforts to shape the world. The beliefs and emotions that led them to do so reflected distinctive aspects of U.S. culture, not least the strength of ties to Europe. Consciousness of the nation's unique power fostered feelings of responsibility, entitlement, and aspiration among the people and leaders of the United States. This original analysis challenges some widely held beliefs about the determinants of United States foreign policy and will bring new insight to contemporary debates about whether the nation should-or must-play so active a part in world politics. 606 $aPower (Social sciences)$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPolitics and war$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aIntervention (International law)$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aGreat powers 606 $aWorld politics$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPower (Social sciences)$xHistory 615 0$aPolitics and war$xHistory 615 0$aIntervention (International law)$xHistory 615 0$aGreat powers. 615 0$aWorld politics 676 $a327.73009/04 700 $aThompson$b John A$g(John Alexander),$f1938-$0934660 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460627803321 996 $aA sense of power$92441235 997 $aUNINA