US Foreign Policy in World History

US Foreign Policy in World History is a survey of US foreign relations and its perceived crusade to spread liberty and democracy in the two hundred years since the American Revolution. David Ryan undertakes a systematic and material analysis of US foreign policy, whilst also explaining the policymakers' grand ideologies and the ideas that have shaped US diplomacy.US Foreign Policy explores these arguments by taking a thematic approach structured around central episodes and ideas in the history of US foreign relations and policy making, including:*The Monroe Doctrine, its philisophical goals and impact*Imperialism and expansionism*the Cold War* Third World development*the 'evil empires' of Nasser, the Sandinistas and Sadam Hussein*the place of goal for economic integration within foreign affairs