Examines the complex relationship between United States foreign policy and American national identity as it has changed from the post-cold war period through the defining moment of 9/11 and into the 21st century. Starting with a discussion of notions of American identity in an historical sense, the contributors go on to examine the most central issues in US foreign policy and their impact on national identity including: the end of the Cold War, the rise of neo-conservatism, ideas of US Empire and the influence of the 'War on Terror'. The book sheds significant new light on the continuities and discontinuities in the relationship of US identity to foreign policy.
Author(s): Kennet Christie
Edition: 1
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 208
BOOK COVER......Page 1
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 8
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 10
FOREWORD......Page 12
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 18
INTRODUCTION......Page 20
Section 1 HISTORY AND IDENTITY IN US FOREIGN POLICY......Page 26
1 VICTORY AND IDENTITY: The end of the Cold War in American imagination......Page 28
2 COSMOPOLITANISM OR NATIVISM?: US national identity and foreign policy in the twenty-first century......Page 45
Section 2 MOTIVATIONS, IDENTITY AND IDEOLOGY IN US FOREIGN POLICY......Page 60
3 A NEO-CONSERVATIVE-DOMINATED US FOREIGN POLICY ESTABLISHMENT?......Page 62
4 PATRIOTISM, NATIONAL IDENTITY, AND FOREIGN POLICY: The US–Israeli alliance in the twenty-first century......Page 75
5 THE COMPLEX FATE OF BEING AMERICA: The constitution of identity and the politics of security......Page 91
Section 3 THE CONSEQUENCES: THE RELUCTANT EMPIRE?......Page 108
6 REPUBLIC, EMPIRE OR GOOD INTERNATIONAL CITIZEN?: International law and American identity......Page 110
7 THE GREEKS OF OLD: Modelling the British Empire for a twenty-first century America......Page 126
8 EMPIRE AS A WAY OF LIFE?: A search for historical alternatives......Page 140
NOTES......Page 156
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 177
INDEX......Page 193
