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• Introduction: the origins of American hegemony in Europe
• 1. The United States and the rise of fascism in Italy
• 2. United States economic policy toward Italy
• 3. The United States and Italy confront the Great Depression
• 4. Roosevelt and fascist Italy, from the London Economic Conference to the Italo-Ethiopian War (1933–6)
• 5. Conclusion.

Originally published in Italian in 1980, Gli Stati Uniti e il fascismo: Alle origini dell'egemonia Americana in Italia is regarded today as a crucial text on the relationship between the United States and Italy during the interwar years. Aside from the addition of two new prefaces - one by the author and one by the book's translator, Molly Tambor - the original text has remained unchanged, so that Anglophone readers now have the opportunity to engage with this classic work. By analyzing the enduring relationship between the United States - especially its financial establishment - and fascist Italy up until Mussolini's conquest of Ethiopia in 1935, this book provides answers to some key questions about the interconnectedness of America's rise to hegemonic global financial power in the twentieth century and its support of Italian fascism during this time.

• Introduction--
• 1. TheOpen Door Idea, 1893-1904--
• 2. Imposing the Open Door, 1904-1917--
• 3. The Global Open Door, 1917-1929--
• 4. The Open Door in a Closed World, 1929-1945--
• 5. The Open Door and the Cold War, 1945-1968--
• 6. The Open DoorTriumphant, 1968-1991 Conclusion-- Select Bibliography.
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In 1899, U.S. Secretary of State John Hay wrote six world powers calling for an 'Open Door' in China that would guarantee equal trading opportunities, curtail colonial annexation, and prevent conflict in the Far East. Within a year, the region had succumbed to renewed colonisation and war, but despite the apparent failure of Hay's diplomacy, the ideal of the Open Door emerged as the central component of U.S. foreign policy in the twentieth century. Just as visions of 'Manifest Destiny' shaped continental expansion in the nineteenth century, Woodrow Wilson used the Open Door to make the case for a world 'safe for democracy', Franklin Roosevelt developed it to inspire the fight against totalitarianism and imperialism, and Cold War containment policy envisioned international communism as the latest threat to a global system built upon peace, openness, and exchange. In a concise yet wide-ranging examination of its origins and development, readers will discover how the idea of the Open Door came to define the American Century.Key Features:Uncovers the ideological wellspring of U.S. foreign policy in the twentieth centuryPresents debates over U.S. foreign policy, including the 'Wisconsin School' critique of the Open Door as a mechanism of informal empireReveals both the consistency of U. S. foreign policy thinking and offers a deeper context to critical foreign policy decisionsContextulises the roots of contemporary U.S. policy.
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In 1899, U.S. Secretary of State John Hay wrote six world powers calling for an Open Door in China that would guarantee equal trading opportunities, curtail colonial annexation, and prevent conflict in the Far East. Within a year, the region had succumbed to renewed colonisation and war, but despite the apparent failure of Hay's diplomacy, the ideal of the Open Door emerged as the central component of U.S. foreign policy in the twentieth century. Just as visions of Manifest Destiny'shaped continental expansion in the nineteenth century, Woodrow Wilson used the Open Door to make the case for a world safe for democracy, Franklin Roosevelt developed it to inspire the fight against totalitarianism and imperialism, and Cold War containment policy envisioned international communism as the latest threat to a global system built upon peace, openness, and exchange. In a concise yet wide-ranging examination of its origins and development, readers will discover how the idea of the Open Door came to define the American Century.
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• Preface Introcution
• 1 Theories of Rising Power Expansion and Restraint
• 2 Origins of Expansionism, 1898-1900
• 3 Consolidation and Backlash, 1899-1903
• 4 Adaptation and Recession, 1904-1912
• 5 Expansionism Transformed, 1913-1921
• 6 Republican Interregnun, 1921-1933
• 7 From Nonintervention to Noninterference, 1933-1941 Conclusion Bibliography Index.
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At the end of the nineteenth century, the United States emerged as an economic colossus in command of a new empire. Yet for the next forty years the United States eschewed the kind of aggressive grand strategy that had marked other rising imperial powers in favor of a policy of moderation. In Power and Restraint, Jeffrey W. Meiser explores why the United States - counter to widely accepted wisdom in international relations theory - chose the course it did. Using thirty-four carefully researched historical cases, Meiser asserts that domestic political institutions and culture played a decisive role in preventing the mobilization of resources necessary to implement an expansionist grand strategy. These factors included traditional congressional opposition to executive branch ambitions, voter resistance to European-style imperialism, and the personal antipathy to expansionism felt by presidents like Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt. The web of resilient and redundant political restraints halted or limited expansionist ambitions and shaped the United States into an historical anomaly, a rising great power characterized by prudence and limited international ambitions.
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• Notes on the Contributors Introduction-- B.Sewell & S.Lucas PART I: AMERICA POWER AND THE WORLD Reflex Actions: Colonialism, Corruption and the Politics of Technocracy in the Early 20th Century United States-- P.Kramer Ambassador W. Averell Harriman and the Shift in U.S. Policy toward Moscow after Roosevelt's Death-- F.Costigliola The Kennan Diaries-- D.Milne Ideology, Race, and Nonalignment in U.S. Cold War Foreign Relations: Or, How the Cold War Racialized Neutralism without Neutralizing Race-- J.Parker America's Great Game: The CIA and the Middle East, 1947-67-- H.Wilford The Perfect and Sustainable Road to Economic Development?: The Eisenhower Administration and Latin America-- B.Sewell The Defeat of Ernest Lefever's Nomination: Keeping Human Rights on the United States Foreign Policy Agenda-- S.Snyder PART II: CONTEMPORARY NARRATIVES: POWER AND INTERVENTION Areas of Concern: Area Studies and the New American Studies-- J.C. Rowe Libertas or Fri? On US Liberty, Decline, Freedom and Pluralism-- D.Ryan The United States and the United Nations: Hegemony, Unilateralism and the Limits of Internationalism-- A.Johnstone The US War in Iraq: Confronting the Vietnam Analogy-- A.Priest Domesticating Katrina: Eliding the International Coordinates of a 'Natural' Disaster-- A.Hartnell From Ends to Means: American Foreign Policy and Women's Rights-- H.Laville Conclusion-- S.Lucas Index.
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Looking further than other histories and interpretations of US foreign policy from 1890 to the present, this collection of critiques of US power does not assume that the world is always centred around Washington. Instead, the authors describe and evaluate an America that not only possesses great political, military, and economic power but faces growing challenges to that power, not through 'terrorism' or economic collapse, but through the evolving conceptions of others who do not necessarily see the world as one where Washington leads and others follow. The scholars in Challenging US Foreign Policy do not present their analyses as 'pro-American' or 'anti-American'. In their considerations - from the Philippines to the Middle East to Latin America, from the economy to warplanes to human rights - they do not see the world as ordered by an American exceptionalism. The picture they paint is one beyond George W. Bush's 2001 declaration of power, 'You are with us or you are with the terrorists.'.
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Long admired as the most comprehensive and accessible survey available, U.S. Diplomacy Since 1900, has now been revised and update for a fifth edition. The book traces the major events in the history of U.S. foreign relations from the Spanish-American War to the present. Robert D. Schulzinger, one of the nation's premier historians of U.S. foreign relations, explains how U.S. foreign policy is made and discusses public ideas about foreign relations. The narrative places U.S. foreign relations in the context of the growing interdependence and globalization of international affairs. Updated to include a complete account of the Clinton administration, this new edition explains how both the Clinton and Bush administrations came to grips with the post-Cold War world. The book now includes new material on the ways in which Americans remember the Vietnam War. The selected bibliography has undergone its most extensive revisions since the book was first published. In this text, students will find the most recent scholarship, much of which has been informed by insights from related disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. Distinguished by its combination of narrative and analysis and by its in-depth explanations of how and why policy is made, the new edition of the U.S. Diplomacy Since 1900 remains an invaluable resource for students of international history, foreign relations, and political science.
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Organized chronologically by presidential administration, this text offers an account of American diplomatic history in the 20th century. It focuses on the personalities and economic, cultural and military factors which influence the politics of US foreign policy. Each chapter presents the key foreign relations problems addressed by a particular presidential administration, and concludes with a short assessment of the accomplishments, events and problems of that administration. The chapters are cross-referenced topically so the reader can follow a particular subject, such as the Vietnam War, through several administrations. The text also includes a list of recommended readings.
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• The setting of American foreign policy-- the United States as a world power, 1898-1908-- the diplomacy of the dollar, 1909-1920-- the politics of neutrality, 1914-1917-- America in the Great War, 1917-1918-- politics and diplomacy of peacemaking, 1919-1920-- the triumph of conservative internationalism, 1921-1929-- the diplomacy of depression, 1930-1939-- the politics of coalition warfare, 1940-1945-- the early Cold War, 1945-1952-- Eisenhower's new look, 1953-1960-- globalism triumphant, 1961-1968-- the Cold War takes a holiday, 1969-1976-- the resurrection and death of the Cold War, 1977-1987-- toward the 21st century, 1989-1996.
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The title of the fourth edition has been changed to reflect the fact that courses in which this book has been used tend to begin with World War I and the new century. The book combines narrative and analysis, explaining how and why policy is made and interspersing historiographical interpretations with a chronological study.
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Coming of age during World War I and attaining their finest hour in World War II and the Cold War, these men--FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur--transformed America from an isolated frontier nation into a global superpower. As he tells their stories, Fromkin, author of A Peace to End All Peace, shows how this generation not only made America great but largely succeeded in making it a force for good.
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This comprehensive study of recent American history has been revised and updated to include the ending of the Cold War and the presidency of George Bush.
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Providing a detailed survey of US diplomatic history in the twentieth century, this study combines narrative with analysis to explain how and why policy is made. The new edition has been updated to cover the period from 1900 to the present, including all eight years of the Reagan administration. Schulzinger critically examines the fundamental beliefs which have shaped US foreign policy since the turn of the century: a sense of superiority over other nations, a fear that various countries pose real and immediate dangers to US security, and an optimistic faith that US military strength, wealth, and political values can be applied to improve the lot of the world's peoples.
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Schulzinger's work provides a comprehensive survey of US diplomatic history in the 20th century. Unlike other texts on the subject, the book combines narrative with thoughtful analysis to explain how and why policy is made. The new edition has been updated to cover the period from 1900 to the present, including all eight years of the Reagan administration. Schulzinger critically examines the fundamental beliefs which have shaped US foreign policy since the turn of the century: a sense of superiority over other nations, a fear that various countries pose real and immediate dangers to US security, and an optimistic faith that US military strength, wealth, and political values can be applied to improve the lot of the world's peoples.
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• "The tragedy of American diplomacy" : twenty-five years after / Bradford Perkins.