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Modernity and Power - A History of the Domino Theory in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover, New)
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Modernity and Power - A History of the Domino Theory in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover, New)
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"Modernity and Power" provides a fresh conceptual overview of
twentieth-century United States foreign policy, from the Roosevelt
and Taft administrations through the presidencies of Kennedy and
Johnson. Beginning with Woodrow Wilson, American leaders gradually
abandoned the idea of international relations as a game of
geopolitical interplays, basing their diplomacy instead on a
symbolic opposition between "world public opinion" and the forces
of destruction and chaos. Frank Ninkovich provocatively links this
policy shift to the rise of a distinctly modernist view of history.
To emphasize the central role of symbolism and ideological
assumptions in twentieth-century American statesmanship, Ninkovich
focuses on the domino theory--a theory that departed radically from
classic principles of political realism by sanctioning intervention
in world regions with few financial or geographic claims on the
national interest. Ninkovich insightfully traces the development of
this global strategy from its first appearance early in the century
through the Vietnam war.
Throughout the book, Ninkovich draws on primary sources to recover
the worldview of the policy makers. He carefully assesses the
coherence of their views rather than judge their actions against
"objective" realities. Offering a new alternative to realpolitic
and economic explanations of foreign policy, "Modernity and Power"
will change the way we think about the history of U.S.
international relations.
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