Challenging US Foreign Policy

JOHN CARLOS ROWE Professor of the Humanities, University of Southern California, USAFRANK COSTIGLIOLA Professor in History, the University of Connecticut, USAANNA HARTNELL Lecturer in Contemporary Literature, Birkbeck, University of London, UKANDREW JOHNSTONE Lecturer in American History, the University of Leicester, UKPAUL KRAMER Associate Professor of History, Vanderbilt University, USAHELEN LAVILLE Senior Lecturer in the Department of American and Canadian Studies, the University of Birmingham, UKSCOTT LUCAS Professor of American Studies, the University of Birmingham, UKDAVID MILNE Senior Lecturer in Political History, the University of East Anglia, UKJASON PARKER Associate Professor of History, Texas A&M University, USAANDREW PRIEST Lecturer in International Politics at Aberystwyth University, UKDAVID RYAN Associate Dean, The Graduate School, University College Cork, IrelandBEVAN SEWELL Lecturer in American History, the University of Nottingham, UKSARAH B. SNYDER Lecturer in International History, University College London, UKHUGH WILFORD Professor of United States History, California State University, Long Beach, USA

• Notes on the Contributors Introduction; B.Sewell & S.Lucas PART I: AMERICA POWER AND THE WORLD Reflex Actions: Colonialism, Corruption and the Politics of Technocracy in the Early 20th Century United States; P.Kramer   Ambassador W. Averell Harriman and the Shift in U.S. Policy toward Moscow after Roosevelt's Death; F.Costigliola The Kennan Diaries; D.Milne Ideology, Race, and Nonalignment in U.S. Cold War Foreign Relations: Or, How the Cold War Racialized Neutralism without Neutralizing Race; J.Parker America's Great Game: The CIA and the Middle East, 1947-67; H.Wilford The Perfect and Sustainable Road to Economic Development?: The Eisenhower Administration and Latin America; B.Sewell The Defeat of Ernest Lefever's Nomination: Keeping Human Rights on the United States Foreign Policy Agenda; S.Snyder PART II: CONTEMPORARY NARRATIVES: POWER AND INTERVENTION Areas of Concern: Area Studies and the New American Studies; J.C. Rowe Libertas or Fri? On US Liberty, Decline, Freedom and Pluralism; D.Ryan The United States and the United Nations: Hegemony, Unilateralism and the Limits of Internationalism; A.Johnstone The US War in Iraq: Confronting the Vietnam Analogy; A.Priest Domesticating Katrina: Eliding the International Coordinates of a 'Natural' Disaster; A.Hartnell From Ends to Means: American Foreign Policy and Women's Rights; H.Laville Conclusion; S.Lucas Index