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A North-South Mind in an East-West World - Chester Bowles and the Making of United States Cold War Foreign Policy, 1951-1969 (Hardcover)
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A North-South Mind in an East-West World - Chester Bowles and the Making of United States Cold War Foreign Policy, 1951-1969 (Hardcover)
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How did a top American diplomat's contrarian views on United States
Cold War foreign policy remain largely ignored over the course of
four administrations? Dauer provides an in-depth analysis of the
role of dissent in the formulation of American foreign policy in
this examination of the diplomatic career of Chester Bowles, under
secretary of state during the Kennedy administration and twice
ambassador to India. Based on extensive research in Bowles's
personal papers, the National Archives, and presidential libraries,
the book evaluates Bowles's views and why the foreign policy
establishment largely disregarded them. Based on the private papers
of Chester Bowles, as well as government sources, this book
examines the worldview of Chester Bowles, a businessman, governor,
congressman, and ambassador who participated in the making of U.S.
Cold War foreign policy for nearly two decades. After acquiring a
personal during the Great Depression and entering public service
for one reform term as governor of Connecticut, Bowles became
President Harry Truman's ambassador to India from 1951 to 1953.
Named by President John F. Kennedy to be under secretary of state
in December 1960, he subsequently sought to moderate the hard-line
Cold War positions of the presidential administrations he served.
He opposed the nuclear arms race, sympathized with LDC neutralism,
argued against U.S. participation in the Vietnam War as early as
the mid-1950s, voiced vigorous opposition to the abortive Bay of
Pigs invasion, and consistently sought more economic aid for India.
Bowles's failure to attract much support for his advice was the
product of his own personality defects, his curious unwillingness
to engage inbureaucratic infighting, his refusal to see the world
as merely a stage for the conflict between international communism
and American democratic-capitalism, and presidential
administrations either unwilling or unable to consider new
approaches to the Cold War. Although Bowles was in many ways a
"Cold Warrior," his sensitivity to the concerns of neutralism,
especially in Asia, and "moral compass" largely missing from the
calculations of the administrations he served, made him a voice
that should have been considered more seriously by the
administrations he served. Students of the problems of dissent and
formulation of American foreign policy will find this book
invaluable.
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