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After World War II, a powerful conviction took hold among American intellectuals and policymakers: that the United States could profoundly accelerate and ultimately direct the development of the decolonizing world, serving as a modernizing force around the globe. By accelerating economic growth, promoting agricultural expansion, and encouraging the rise of enlightened elites, they hoped to link development with security, preventing revolutions and...
12) Pax Americana
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"KIRKUS REVIEW : In a first book, The End of Alliance: America and the Future of Europe, the author, a young writer on international affairs, wrote an important popular study of the withering away of the Atlantic strategy of the United States and the disruption of NATO out of old age. In the present study, the author widens his investigation of the Kennedy-Johnson foreign policies and comes out of this intelligent and well-reasoned work with a general...
15) Anti-Americanism
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"After the 9/11 attack on the United States, the brief moment of global sympathy for America soon began giving way to blame. Angered by these assaults on a nation he knows and admires, the distinguished French intellectual Jean-Francois Revel has come to America's defense in Anti-Americanism, a book that (paradoxically, given his country's especially vehement attacks on the U.S. and its policies) spent several weeks late last year on top of France's...
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"Published at a time when the U.S. government's public diplomacy is in crisis, this book provides an exhaustive account of how it used to be done. The United States Information Agency was created, in 1953, to "tell America's story to the world" and, by engaging with the world through international information, broadcasting, culture, and exchange programs, became an essential element of American foreign policy during the Cold War. Based on newly declassified...
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