LEADER 04636oam 2200613 a 450 001 9910963156803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9798400695568 010 $a9780313003769 010 $a0313003769 024 7 $a10.5040/9798400695568 035 $a(CKB)111056485429128 035 $a(EBL)3000613 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000218715 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11199164 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000218715 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10220809 035 $a(PQKB)10144374 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3000613 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10017961 035 $a(OCoLC)55216621 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3000613 035 $a(OCoLC)41649711 035 $a(DLC)BP9798400695568BC 035 $a(Perlego)4202332 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056485429128 100 $a19990618e20002024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aPaths not taken $especulations on American foreign policy and diplomatic history, interests, ideals, and power /$fedited by Jonathan M. Nielson ; foreword by Walter LaFeber 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aWestport, Conn. :$cPraeger,$d2000. 210 2$aLondon :$cBloomsbury Publishing,$d2024 215 $a1 online resource (239 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780275967697 311 08$a0275967697 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover -- PATHS NOT TAKEN -- Contents -- Foreword: Thinking Otherwise -- Preface -- Introduction: The Path Not Taken -- 1 John Adams: Peace at a Price? -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY -- 2 1917: What if the United States Had Not Intervened? -- NOTES -- 3 Lost Opportunities: The Diplomacy of the 1930s -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Manuscript Collections: Private -- Manuscript Collections: Public -- Published Documents -- Books -- Articles and Chapters in Books -- 4 When Nationalism Confronted Hegemony: The U.S. Challenge to the Cuban Revolution, 1959-1961 -- HISTORICAL BACKGROUND -- STAGE 1 -- STAGE 2 -- STAGE 3 -- STAGE 4 -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY -- General Works -- U.S.-Cuban Relations through the Eisenhower Presidency -- The Period of the Revolution -- Kennedy, the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis -- 1963-Present -- 5 Eisenhower, Dulles, and U.S. Policy Toward Israel and the Middle East Crisis at Suez, 1956 -- NOTES -- FOR FURTHER STUDIES -- 6 A Liberal Iran: Casualty of the Cold War -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY -- 7 Lyndon Johnson and America's Military Intervention in Southeast Asia -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY -- Bibliographies and Documentary Collections -- Memoirs and Bibliographies -- General Works -- Aid and Advice: The Early Years -- Escalation and Defeat: The Johnson and Nixon Years -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors. 330 8 $aIn America's foreign affairs there has been a delicate balance between often conflicting imperatives of interests, ideals, and power. How these imperatives have intersected to shape the constellation of American foreign policy decisions throughout the nation's history and, indeed, how they have served to advance or subvert attainment of America's regional, hemispheric and global ambitions, is the subject of this study. This collection of essays explores seminal decisions in American foreign policy and diplomatic history, from the early National period to the Vietnam War, each of which proved to be a turning point, and then asks readers to consider alternative futures based upon different courses of action. Nielson underscores how history could, and perhaps should, have been different. U.S. foreign policy has in large measure been contingent upon decisions made by individuals in positions of power. Their personalities, characters, and assumptions about duty and America's role in the world have uniquely shaped policy choices and, thus, the course of foreign affairs, for better or worse. This book hopes to show that history is ever fluid, unpredictable, and problematic. It will complement traditional texts as a what if counterpoint which will stimulate interest in and speculation about leadership roles, national interest, and decision making in foreign policy. 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$xDecision making 676 $a327.73/009 701 $aNielson$b Jonathan M$01796444 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bDLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910963156803321 996 $aPaths not taken$94338214 997 $aUNINA