Foreign Policy of Lyndon B. Johnson

Jonathan Colman teaches international and US history at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, England. He is the author of A ‘Special Relationship’? Harold Wilson, Lyndon B. Johnson and Anglo-American Relations ‘at the Summit’, 1964-68 (2004), and The Foreign Policy of Lyndon B. Johnson: The United States and the World, 1963-69 (2010). He has also published numerous articles in leading peer-reviewed journals.

• Introduction; 1. The Johnson White House and Foreign Policy; 2. Vietnam: Going to War, 1963-65; 3. Vietnam: Waging War, 1965-69; 4. Two Allies: Britain and France; 5. NATO Nuclear Sharing and Troop Offset; 6. Two Adversaries: The Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China; 7. Two Crises in the Middle East: Cyprus, 1964, and the Six-Day War, 1967; 8. The Western hemisphere: The Alliance for Progress, Cuba and the Dominican Republic; 9. Dollars and Gold: Monetary and Trade Policy; Conclusion; Bibliography.

A very worthwhile contribution to foreign relations literature. For students of US foreign relations it offers an interesting and broad introduction to the Johnson administration’s attempts to grapple with world issues. For scholars and historians it presents a new perspective on Johnson.