Companion to American Foreign Relations (eBook)

Robert D. Schulzinger is Professor of History and Director of the International Affairs Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. A former President of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, he is the editor-in-chief of the society's journal, Diplomatic History. Among his many books are A Time For War: The United Stated And Vietnam, (1997) and U.S. Diplomacy since 1900, 5th Edition (2002).

Notes on Contributors vii

Introduction xi

Robert D. Schulzinger

1 Ideas and Foreign Affairs 1

H. W. Brands

2 "As Far As We Can": Culture and US Foreign
Relations 15

Susan Brewer

3 International Environmental Issues 31

Kurk Dorsey

4 The Early National Period, 1775-1815 48

Peter P. Hill

5 American Expansion, 1815-1860 64

William E. Weeks

6 The United States and Imperialism 79

Frank Ninkovich

7 Relations with Africa since 1900 103

Andrew DeRoche

8 History as Victim: The Sorry State of the Study of
US-Japanese Relations, 1900-1945 121

Michael A. Barnhart

9 US-Latin American Relations, 1898-1941: A
Historiographical Review 134

Mark T. Gilderhus

10 Woodrow Wilson and World War I 149

Lloyd E. Ambrosius

11 Recent Explorations Concerning the Interwar Period 168

Justus D. Doenecke

12 World War II 188

Mark A. Stoler

13 The Early Cold War 215

Jeremi Suri

14 United States-Latin American Relations, 1942-1960
230

Darlene Rivas

15 From Containment to Containment? Understanding US Relations
with China since 1949 255

Evelyn Goh and Rosemary Foot

16 The Korean War 275

James I. Matray

17 Foreign Relations in the 1950s 292

Richard H. Immerman

18 The Vietnam War 309

David L. Anderson

19 Beyond Vietnam: The Foreign Policies of the
Kennedy-Johnson Administrations 330

Randall B. Woods

20 The United States and the Middle East since 1967 375

Peter L. Hahn

21 US Relations with Latin America, 1961 to the Present: A
Historiographic Review 387

Stephen G. Rabe

22 Presidential Elections and the Cold War 404

Melvin Small

23 Détente Over Thirty Years 422

Keith L. Nelson

24 Nationalism and Regionalism in an Era of Globalization: US
Relations with South and Southeast Asia, 1975-2000 440

Robert J. McMahon

Conclusion: From the End of the Cold War to the Beginning of the
Twenty-First Century 455

Robert D. Schulzinger

Bibliography 461

Index 543