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001389227 1001_ $$aThompson, John A.$$q(John Alexander),$$d1938-$$eauthor.
001389227 24512 $$aA sense of power :$$bthe roots of America's global role /$$cJohn A. Thompson.
001389227 264_1 $$aIthaca and London :$$bCornell University Press,$$c2015.
001389227 264_4 $$c©2015
001389227 300__ $$axiv, 343 pages ;$$c25 cm
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001389227 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
001389227 5050_ $$aA new sense of power -- Advance and retreat, 1914-1920 -- A restrained superpower, 1920-1938 -- Lessening restraint, 1938-1941 -- Full-scale involvement, 1941-1945 -- Assuming "the responsibilities of power," 1945-1952.
001389227 520__ $$aWhy 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 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. -- from dust jacket
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