Pursuing the National Interest: Moments of Transition in Twentieth-Century American Foreign Policy

by Karl K. Schonberg

The history of twentieth-century American foreign policy presents an indictment of classical and structural realism and systemic theories of international relations more generally. Examining five crucial movements of transition in American foreign policy making - before and after each of the world wars and the end of the Cold War - Shonberg argues that the national interest resides mostly in the eye of the beholder, and that the idiosyncratic perceptions,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275972062
• ISBN13: 9780275972066
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"