Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations

Christopher McKnight Nichols is professor of history and Wayne Woodrow Hayes Chair in National Security Studies, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, at the Ohio State University. An Andrew Carnegie Fellow and award-winning scholar and teacher, Nichols is the author or editor of six books, including Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age (2011) and Rethinking American Grand Strategy (2021).David Milne is professor of modern history at the University of East Anglia. His books include Worldmaking: The Art and Science of American Diplomacy (2015).

• Introduction, by Christopher McKnight Nichols and David MilnePart I: Ideologies and the People1. Indigenous Subjecthood and White Populism in British America, by Matthew Kruer2. American Presidents and the Ideology of Civilization, by Benjamin A. Coates3. Containing the Multitudes: Nationalism and U.S. Foreign Policy Ideas at the Grassroots Level, by Michaela Hoenicke-Moore4. “Mrs. Sovereign Citizen”: Women’s International Thought and American Public Culture, 1920–1950, by Katharina RietzlerPart II: Ideologies of Power5. Competing Free Trade Traditions in U.S. Foreign Policy from the American Revolution to the “ American Century”, by Marc-William Palen6. The Righteous Cause: John Quincy Adams and the Limits of American Exceptionalism, by Nicholas Guyatt7. Antislavery and Empire: The Early Republican Party Confronts the World, by Matthew Karp8. The Fearful Giant: National Insecurity and U.S Foreign Policy, by Andrew Preston9. Unilateralism as Ideology, by Christopher McKnight NicholsPart III: Ideologies of the International10 “For Young People”: Protestant Missions, Geography, and American Youth at the End of the Nineteenth Century, by Emily Conroy-Krutz11. Eugenia Charles, the United States, and Military Intervention in Grenada, by Imaobong Umoren12. I Think of Myself as an International Citizen: Flemmie P. Kittrell’s Internationalist Ideology, by Brandy Thomas Wells13. Just War as Ideology: A Militant Ecumenism of Catholics and Evangelicals, by Raymond Haberski Jr.Part IV: Ideologies and Democracy14. Freedom as Ideology, by Jeremi Suri15. Roads Not Taken: The Delhi Declaration, Nelson Mandela, Václav Havel, and the Lost Futures of 1989, by Penny Von Eschen16. Not Just Churches: American Jews, Joint Church Aid, and the Nigeria-Biafra War, by Melani McAlister17. Contentious Designs: Ideology and U.S. Immigration Policy, by Daniel TichenorPart V: Ideologies of Progress18. Capital and Immigration in the Era of the Civil War, by Jay Sexton19. The Progressive Origins of Project RAND, by Daniel Bessner20. Cold War Liberals, Neoconservatives, and the Rediscovery of Ideology, by Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Michael Franczak21. The Galactic Vietnam: Technology, Modernization, and Empire in George Lucas’s Star Wars, by Daniel Immerwahr22. Dual-Use Ideologies: How Science Came to Be Part of the United States’ Cold War Arsenal, by Audra J. WolfeConclusionAcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex

A dream team of historians of U.S. foreign relations, under the masterly guidance of Christopher McKnight Nichols and David Milne, has rehabilitated the concept of ideology for a new historiographical moment. The results are indispensable: each of the parts is superb, and the whole is more than their sum.