Belligerents, brinkmanship, and the big stick a historical encyclopedia of American diplomatic concepts /

• Main Author: Dobson, John M.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Santa Barbara, CA : ABC-CLIO, Ã2009.
• Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE > International. > Government; POLITICAL SCIENCE > General. > International Relations; Auėnpolitik.; Diplomatie.; Philosophie.; United States > Encyclopedias. > Foreign relations; United States > Encyclopedias. > Philosophy > Foreign relations; USA.; Electronic books.
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Offers authoritative coverage of the concepts, traditions, events, and individuals that shaped United States' foreign relations from the American Revolution to the present.

Table of Contents:

• Inventing foreign policy, 1776-1830
• Expansion and Civil war, 1830-1880
• Rise of a great power, 1880-1914
• The World Wars, 1914-1945
• The Cold War and after, 1945-