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A Sense of Power - The Roots of America's Global Role (Hardcover)
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A Sense of Power - The Roots of America's Global Role (Hardcover)
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Why has the United States assumed so extensive and costly a role in
world affairs over the last hundred years? The two most common
answers to this question are "because it could" and "because it had
to." Neither answer will do, according to this challenging
re-assessment of the way that America came to assume its global
role. The country's vast economic resources gave it the capacity to
exercise great influence abroad, but Americans were long reluctant
to meet the costs of wielding that power. Neither the country's
safety from foreign attack nor its economic well-being required the
achievement of ambitious foreign policy objectives.In A Sense of
Power, John A. Thompson takes a long view of America's dramatic
rise as a world power, from the late nineteenth century into the
post–World War II era. How, and more importantly why, has America
come to play such a dominant role in world affairs? There is, he
argues, no simple answer. Thompson challenges conventional
explanations of America's involvement in World War I and World War
II, seeing neither the requirements of national security nor
economic interests as determining. He shows how American leaders
from Wilson to Truman developed an ever more capacious
understanding of the national interest, and why by the 1940s most
Americans came to support the price tag, in blood and treasure,
attached to strenuous efforts to shape the world. The beliefs and
emotions that led them to do so reflected distinctive aspects of
U.S. culture, not least the strength of ties to Europe.
Consciousness of the nation’s unique power fostered feelings of
responsibility, entitlement, and aspiration among the people and
leaders of the United States.This original analysis challenges some
widely held beliefs about the determinants of United States foreign
policy and will bring new insight to contemporary debates about
whether the nation should—or must—play so active a part in
world politics.
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