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Tomorrow, the World - The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy (Hardcover)
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A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year A new history explains how
and why, as it prepared to enter World War II, the United States
decided to lead the postwar world. For most of its history, the
United States avoided making political and military commitments
that would entangle it in European-style power politics. Then,
suddenly, it conceived a new role for itself as the world’s armed
superpower—and never looked back. In Tomorrow, the World, Stephen
Wertheim traces America’s transformation to the crucible of World
War II, especially in the months prior to the attack on Pearl
Harbor. As the Nazis conquered France, the architects of the
nation’s new foreign policy came to believe that the United
States ought to achieve primacy in international affairs
forevermore. Scholars have struggled to explain the decision to
pursue global supremacy. Some deny that American elites made a
willing choice, casting the United States as a reluctant power that
sloughed off “isolationism” only after all potential
competitors lay in ruins. Others contend that the United States had
always coveted global dominance and realized its ambition at the
first opportunity. Both views are wrong. As late as 1940, the small
coterie of officials and experts who composed the U.S. foreign
policy class either wanted British preeminence in global affairs to
continue or hoped that no power would dominate. The war, however,
swept away their assumptions, leading them to conclude that the
United States should extend its form of law and order across the
globe and back it at gunpoint. Wertheim argues that no one favored
“isolationism”—a term introduced by advocates of armed
supremacy in order to turn their own cause into the definition of a
new “internationalism.” We now live, Wertheim warns, in the
world that these men created. A sophisticated and impassioned
narrative that questions the wisdom of U.S. supremacy, Tomorrow,
the World reveals the intellectual path that brought us to
today’s global entanglements and endless wars.
General
Imprint: |
The Belknap Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2020 |
Authors: |
Stephen Wertheim
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Dimensions: |
235 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
272 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-674-24866-3 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-674-24866-X |
Barcode: |
9780674248663 |
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