Paths not taken : speculations on American foreign policy and diplomatic history, interests, ideals, and power / / edited by Jonathan M. Nielson ; foreword by Walter LaFeber

• Pubblicazione: Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2000; London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (239 p.)
• Disciplina: 327.73/009
• Soggetto geografico: United States Foreign relations; United States Foreign relations Decision making
• Altri autori: NielsonJonathan M
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: In 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Paths not taken
• ISBN: 9798400695568; 9780313003769; 0313003769
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910963156803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II