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Isolation and Security: Ideas and Interests in Twentieth-Century American Foreign Policy » Read Now
by Alexander Deconde. 212 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...isolationisms" rather than "isolationism." What Americans have called isolationism...strain in the history of American isolationism and prior to the Second...to avoid war...
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Misreading the Public: The Myth of a New Isolationism » Read Now
by Steven Kull, I. M. Destler. 312 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...domestic concerns, American opinion does not reflect a new isolationism." He also noted...signs of growing isolationism in the United States, Americans as a whole...
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Isolationism Reconfigured: American Foreign Policy for a New Century » Read Now
by Eric A. Nordlinger. 335 pgs.

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This iconoclastic and fundamental work, Eric Nordlinger's last, advocates a new variant of isolationism, a "national strategy" confining U.S. military actions largely to North America and to neighboring sea-and air- lanes but encouraging international activism and engagement in nonsecurity realms...
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This iconoclastic and fundamental work, Eric Nordlinger's last, advocates a new variant of isolationism, a "national strategy" confining U.S. military actions largely to North America and to neighboring sea-and air- lanes but encouraging international activism and engagement in nonsecurity realms. In Nordlinger's view, disengaging from security commitments on distant shores would liberate the United States to use its resources and decision-making powers to act more effectively abroad in matters of economic policy and human rights. A national strategy would then become a powerful new method of encouraging international ideals of democracy, and isolationism would be freed of its previous associations with appeasement, weakness, economic protectionism, and self-serving nationalism.
Nordlinger draws on the recent historical record to show that a national strategy would have lessened the perils of earlier decades, including those of the Cold War. While real dangers did exist during this period, engaged strategies, such as containment, too often exacerbated them. The United States could have effectively and far less expensively helped to
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Toward an Entangling Alliance: American Isolationism, Internationalism, and Europe, 1901-1950 » Read Now
by Ronald E. Powaski. 298 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Powaski's study analyzes why the United States, conceived with a dedication to peace, individual freedom, and opportunity, pursued a policy of political and military isolationism toward Europe, and how the upheavals of the 20th century necessitated the abandonment of this policy by 1950. A...
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Powaski's study analyzes why the United States, conceived with a dedication to peace, individual freedom, and opportunity, pursued a policy of political and military isolationism toward Europe, and how the upheavals of the 20th century necessitated the abandonment of this policy by 1950. A chronological approach to the topic identifies the origins of isolationism in colonial idealism, and traces the factors, events, and personalities which forced the United States to reevaluate its international position and ultimately reaffirm its original ideals through continuing involvement in world peace organizations.
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Twentieth-Century American Foreign Policy (Includes discussion of American isolationism in multiple chapters) » Read Now
by John Braeman, Robert H. Bremner, David Brody. 567 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...revealed strains of isolationism and revisionism...specialists in American foreign policy...disillusionment and isolationism," Bailey described...acceptance by the...
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The New Isolationism: A Study in Politics and Foreign Policy since 1950 » Read Now
by Norman A. Graebner. 289 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...deeply rooted in the American experience. Until 1940 isolationism had furnished the ultimate...between these absolutes. American isolationism as reflected in...
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America First: The Battle against Intervention, 1940-41 » Read Now
by Wayne S. Cole. 305 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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Senator Gerald P. Nye and American Foreign Relations ("Fight for Neutrality" begins on p. 77) » Read Now
by Wayne S. Cole. 298 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...in the rise and fall of American isolationism. The central hypothesis...analyzes the transition of American isolationism from liberalism to conservatism...that finds ethnic...
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Selling War: The British Propaganda Campaign against American "Neutrality" in World War II » Read Now
by Nicholas John Cull. 280 pgs.

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"British propaganda brought America to the brink of war, and left it to the Japanese and Hitler to finish the job." So concludes Nicholas Cull in this absorbing study of how the United States was transformed from isolationism to belligerence in the years before the attack on Pearl Harbor. From the...
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"British propaganda brought America to the brink of war, and left it to the Japanese and Hitler to finish the job." So concludes Nicholas Cull in this absorbing study of how the United States was transformed from isolationism to belligerence in the years before the attack on Pearl Harbor. From the moment it realized that all was lost without American aid, the British Government employed a host of persuasive tactics to draw the US to its rescue. With the help of talents as varied as those of matinee idol Leslie Howard, Oxford philosopher Isaiah Berlin and society photographer Cecil Beaton, no section of America remained untouched and no method--from Secret Service intrigue to the publication of horrifying pictures of Nazi atrocities--remained untried. The British sought and won the support of key journalists and broadcasters, including Edward R. Murrow, Dorothy Thompson and Walter Winchell; Hollywood film makers also played a willing part. Cull details these and other propaganda activities, covering the entire range of the British effort. A fascinating story of how a foreign country provoked America's involvement in its greatest war, Selling War will appeal to all those interested in the modern cultural and political history of Britain and the United States.
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The Neutrality Policy of the United States (1936) » Read Now
by Julia E. Johnsen. 274 pgs.

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...Charles E. Legal Position of Neutrality American Society of International Law. Proceedings...Henry L. Neutrality and War Preven tion American Society of International Law...
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Elements of American Foreign Policy ("The Gospel of Isolationism" begins on p. 222) » Read Now
by L. Larry Leonard. 611 pgs.

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...Russell 210 PART FOUR. THE SUBSTANCE OF AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY SECTION A. The Tradition of No Entanglements...Isolation , the Editor 217 35. The Gospel of Isolationism ...