Many historians of U.S. foreign relations think of the
post-World War II period as a time when the United States, as an
anti-colonial power, advocated collective security through the
United Nations and denounced territorial aggrandizement. Yet
between 1945 and 1947, the United States violated its wartime
rhetoric and instead sought an imperial solution to its postwar
security problems in East Asia by acquiring unilateral control of
the western Pacific Islands and dominating influence throughout the
entire Pacific Basin. This detailed study examines American foreign
policy from the beginning of the Truman Administration to the
implementation of Containment in the summer and fall of 1947. As a
case study of the Truman Administration's Early Cold War efforts,
it explores pre-Containment policy in light of U.S. security
concerns vis-a-vis the Pearl Harbor Syndrome.
The American pursuit of a secure Pacific Basin was inconsistent
at the time with its foreign policy toward other areas of the
world. Thus, the consolidation of power in this region was an
exception to the avowed goal of a multilateral response to the
policies of the Soviet Union. This example of national or strategic
security went much further than simple military control; it
included the cultural assimilation of the indigenous population and
the unilateral exclusion of all other powers. Analyzing traditional
archival records in a new light, Friedman also investigates the
persisting American notions of a Westward moving frontier that
stretches beyond North American territorial bounds.
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