United States Foreign Policy & National Identity in the 21st Century

Dr. Kenneth Christie is a Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities at Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. His research interests are international relations and comparative politics. He is the author and editor of more than 6 books, including The South African Truth Commission (MacMillan: Palgrave, 2000) and The Politics of Human Rights in East Asia (with Denny Roy), (London:Pluto Press).

• Foreword Anatol Lieven. Introduction Part 1: History and Identity in US Foreign Policy 1. Identity and Victory: The Cold war’s end in American Memory Roger Johnson 2. Nativism or Cosmopolitanism? American Identity in the 21st Century Carl Pedersen Part 2: Motivations, Identity and Ideology in US Foreign Policy 3. A Neo-Conservative-Dominated US Foreign Policy Establishment? Inderjeet Parmar 4. American Evangelical Protestantism and US Foreign Policy Caitlin Stewart 5. Constructing US Identity: Unilateralism and Multilateralism in US Security Policy Ed Lock Part 3: The Consequences: The Reluctant Empire? 6. "Will the United States always be the ‘Quintessential’ Modern Nation-State in an Increasingly Postmodern World?" Jason G. Ralph 7. How the Anglophones can Save the American Imperium: Modelling the British Empire for a 21st Century America Binoy Kampmark 8. American Empire as a Way of Life: The Search for Historical Alternatives Jonathan Hansen