In 1899, U.S. Secretary of State John Hay wrote six world powers
calling for an Open Door in China that would guarantee equal
trading opportunities, curtail colonial annexation, and prevent
conflict in the Far East. Within a year, the region had succumbed
to renewed colonisation and war, but despite the apparent failure
of Hay's diplomacy, the ideal of the Open Door emerged as the
central component of U.S. foreign policy in the twentieth century.
Just as visions of Manifest Destiny'shaped continental expansion in
the nineteenth century, Woodrow Wilson used the Open Door to make
the case for a world safe for democracy, Franklin Roosevelt
developed it to inspire the fight against totalitarianism and
imperialism, and Cold War containment policy envisioned
international communism as the latest threat to a global system
built upon peace, openness, and exchange. In a concise yet
wide-ranging examination of its origins and development, readers
will discover how the idea of the Open Door came to define the
American Century.
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