The Abandonment of the West : The History of an Idea in American Foreign Policy
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0465055907
ISBN-13
9780465055906
Publisher
Basic Books
Imprint
Basic Books
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 28th, 2020
Print length
384 Pages
Weight
600 grams
Dimensions
16.20 x 24.30 x 3.70 cms
Product Classification:
History of ideasCentral government policies
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How the idea of the West drove twentieth-century US foreign policy, how it fell from favor, and why it is worth saving
This definitive portrait of American diplomacy reveals how the concept of the West drove twentieth-century foreign policy, how it fell from favor, and why it is worth saving.
Throughout the twentieth century, many Americans saw themselves as part of Western civilization, and Western ideals of liberty and self-government guided American diplomacy. But today, other ideas fill this role: on one side, a technocratic "liberal international order," and on the other, the illiberal nationalism of "America First."
In The Abandonment of the West, historian Michael Kimmage shows how the West became the dominant idea in US foreign policy in the first half of the twentieth century -- and how that consensus has unraveled. We must revive the West, he argues, to counter authoritarian challenges from Russia and China. This is an urgent portrait of modern America''s complicated origins, its emergence as a superpower, and the crossroads at which it now stands.
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