Challenging US Foreign Policy: America and the World in the Long Twentieth Century

by Bevan Sewell (Editor), S. Lucas (Editor)

Some categorisations of US power have long governed analyses of American foreign policy - concepts such as 'empire', 'decline', 'superpower', 'the Cold War' and 'the War on Terror' - and have led to a distortion that sees US policy measured by broad labels, rather than on its own terms. This fresh new approach seeks to challenge these terms.

314 pages, Hardcover

First published October 13, 2011

About the author

A specialist in American and British political and foreign relations history during the twentieth century, Bevan Sewell is an associate professor of American history at the University of Nottingham.