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Author: Tony Smith
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Edition: New edition
Volume: 57
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.60cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.709kg
ISBN: 9780691044668
ISBN 10: 069104466
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 23 July 1995
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Professional & Vocational
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Replaced By: 9780691154923
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
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Language: English
Reviews
Tony Smith argues persuasively that liberal internationalism is not, as Kissinger sometimes implies, a cultural quirk of unsophisticated Americans. Rather, it has built on powerful global historical trends. -- Francis Fukuyama, The New Republic This work, formidable in scope and scholarship, is a rousing defense of liberal Wilsonian internationalism... [Smith's] historical account [of attempts to implant democracy] is accompanied by a sophisticated analysis of the perspectives on democratization of Marxists, comparativists, and realists, who hold respectively, says the author, that the United States will not, cannot, and should not promote democracy worldwide. -- David C. Hendrickson, Foreign Affairs America's Mission is a book with a mission. It's aim ... is nothing less than to overthrow the hitherto dominant theory dealing with American foreign affairs and to put in its place a different one. -- Theodore Draper, New York Review of Books [Smith's] account of the 20th century is just about as close to unputdownable as it gets in the genre of political history, and ends up advocating what seems to be an appropriate level of optimism for what remains, after all, a terrifying and chaotic world. -- Washington Post America's Mission provides a comprehensive historical review of the record of American liberal internationalism. Tony Smith argues persuasively that liberal internationalism is not a cultural quirk of unsophisticated Americans. Rather, it has built on powerful global historical trends. The liberal internationalist streak in American foreign policy has, in turn, been responsible for shaping a liberal world order conducive to American security and economic interests. -- New Republic This contentious study of US foreign policy is sure to generate new debates about the ideals and realities that inspire and legitimize US foreign policy. -- Choice
Tony Smith argues persuasively that liberal internationalism is not, as Kissinger sometimes implies, a cultural quirk of unsophisticated Americans. Rather, it has built on powerful global historical trends. -- Francis Fukuyama The New Republic This work, formidable in scope and scholarship, is a rousing defense of liberal Wilsonian internationalism... [Smith's] historical account [of attempts to implant democracy] is accompanied by a sophisticated analysis of the perspectives on democratization of Marxists, comparativists, and realists, who hold respectively, says the author, that the United States will not, cannot, and should not promote democracy worldwide. -- David C. Hendrickson Foreign Affairs America's Mission is a book with a mission. It's aim ... is nothing less than to overthrow the hitherto dominant theory dealing with American foreign affairs and to put in its place a different one. -- Theodore Draper New York Review of Books [Smith's] account of the 20th century is just about as close to unputdownable as it gets in the genre of political history, and ends up advocating what seems to be an appropriate level of optimism for what remains, after all, a terrifying and chaotic world. Washington Post America's Mission provides a comprehensive historical review of the record of American liberal internationalism. Tony Smith argues persuasively that liberal internationalism is not a cultural quirk of unsophisticated Americans. Rather, it has built on powerful global historical trends. The liberal internationalist streak in American foreign policy has, in turn, been responsible for shaping a liberal world order conducive to American security and economic interests. New Republic This contentious study of US foreign policy is sure to generate new debates about the ideals and realities that inspire and legitimize US foreign policy. Choice
Tony Smith argues persuasively that liberal internationalism is not, as Kissinger sometimes implies, a cultural quirk of unsophisticated Americans. Rather, it has built on powerful global historical trends. -- Francis Fukuyama, The New Republic This work, formidable in scope and scholarship, is a rousing defense of liberal Wilsonian internationalism... [Smith's] historical account [of attempts to implant democracy] is accompanied by a sophisticated analysis of the perspectives on democratization of Marxists, comparativists, and realists, who hold respectively, says the author, that the United States will not, cannot, and should not promote democracy worldwide. -- David C. Hendrickson, Foreign Affairs America's Mission is a book with a mission. It's aim ... is nothing less than to overthrow the hitherto dominant theory dealing with American foreign affairs and to put in its place a different one. -- Theodore Draper, New York Review of Books [Smith's] account of the 20th century is just about as close to unputdownable as it gets in the genre of political history, and ends up advocating what seems to be an appropriate level of optimism for what remains, after all, a terrifying and chaotic world. -- Washington Post America's Mission provides a comprehensive historical review of the record of American liberal internationalism. Tony Smith argues persuasively that liberal internationalism is not a cultural quirk of unsophisticated Americans. Rather, it has built on powerful global historical trends. The liberal internationalist streak in American foreign policy has, in turn, been responsible for shaping a liberal world order conducive to American security and economic interests. -- New Republic This contentious study of US foreign policy is sure to generate new debates about the ideals and realities that inspire and legitimize US foreign policy. -- Choice
Author Information
Tony Smith is Cornelia M. Jackson Professor of Political Science at Tufts University and Senior Research Associate at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University. His other works include Thinking Like a Communist: State and Legitimacy in the Soviet Union, China, and Cuba and The Pattern of Imperialism: The United States, Great Britain, and the Late-Industrializing World since 1815.
