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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      August 2009
      December 2007
      ISBN:
      9780511511592
      9780521879057
      9780521714044
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511511592
      Dimensions:
      (234 x 156 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.566kg, 316 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (234 x 156 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.45kg, 316 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, American History after 1945, American Studies, History, Twentieth Century American History
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    Area Studies, American History after 1945, American Studies, History, Twentieth Century American History
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    A Faustian Foreign Policy from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush critiques U.S. foreign policy during this period by showing how moralistic diplomacy has increasingly assumed Faustian overtones, especially during the Cold War and following September 11. The ideological components of American diplomacy, originating in the late 18th and 19th centuries, evolved through the 20th century as U.S. economic and political power steadily increased. Seeing myth making as essential in any country's founding and a common determinant of its foreign policy, Professor Joan Hoff reveals how the basic belief in its exceptionalism has driven America's past and present attempts to remake the world in its own image. She expands her original concept of 'independent internationalism' as the modus operandi of U.S. diplomacy to reveal the many unethical Faustian deals the United States entered into since 1920 to obtain its current global supremacy.

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    'Hoff has made a valuable contribution to our understanding of American foreign policy. This is a book that should be read widely, not only discussed among academics. … Hoff presents a 'more positive legacy' that could be achieved if the United States followed a different path. … many readers will be looking forward to her next effort.'

    Source: The Review of Politics

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