Globalizing the U.S. Presidency

Cyrus Schayegh is Professor of International History at the Graduate Institute of Geneva, Switzerland. He was previously Associate Professor at Princeton University, USA, and in 2005-2008, Assistant Professor at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. His current research focuses mainly on the interplay between post-war globalisation and decolonisation, Arab views of Afro-Asian decolonisation, interwar European inter-imperial cooperation, and historiography.

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Introduction, and a Note on the US Imperial-Postcolonial Field, Cyrus Schayegh
Part I: Actors
1. First New Nation or Internal Colony? Modernization Theorists, Black Intellectuals, and the Politics of Colonial Comparison in the Kennedy Years, Sam Klug
2. John F. Kennedy as Viewed by Africans, Philip E. Muehlenbeck
3. “I Named My Son Kennedy”: Rural Kenyan Perceptions of John F. Kennedy during Decolonization, Kara Moskowitz
4. Brazilian Public Opinion of John F. Kennedy and the Alliance for Progress in Cold War Brazil (1961-3), Felipe Loureiro
Part II: Appropriation: Domestic Contexts
5. “An Example for Other Small Nations to Follow”: John F.Kennedy, Ireland and Decolonization, David P. Kilroy
6. Global Media, Emotions, and the ‘Kennedy Narrative’: John F. Kennedy as Seen from the ‘Global South’, Sönke Kunkel
7. From Hope to Disillusionment: Moroccan Perceptions of the Kennedy Presidency, David Stenner
8. Foreign Gifts and US Imperial Ambiguities: the Kennedy Years, Cyrus Schayegh
Part III: Appropriation, Cont’d: Antagonisms and Contestations
9. Watching, Countering, and Emulating Peaceful Evolution: PRC Responses to Kennedy Administration Cultural Diplomacy and Global Strategy, Matthew D. Johnson
10. Whose Revolution? López Mateos, John F. Kennedy’s Mexican Visit, and the Alliance for Progress, Vanni Pettinà
11. Camelot in Korea: The Paradox of John F. Kennedy in Authoritarian South Korea, 1961-3, Inga Kim Diederich
12. John F. Kennedy through the Lens of a Divided Vietnam, Aaron Lillie and Diu-Huong Nguyen
Part IV: Intermediaries and Afterlives
13. The President’s Messenger: American Visions, Indian Citizens, and National Development in the Kennedy Years, Benjamin Siegel
14. Mediating the Kennedy Presidency: James Baldwin’s Decade in Turkey, Begüm Adalet
15. “The Kennedys Know Something about That, Too”: Law, Lineage, and Martyrdom in US-South Africa relations, Myra Ann Houser
16. Conclusion: “Someone Talking the Same Language with All of Us”, Robert B. Rakove
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Index