Foreign Policy at the Periphery (eBook)

Bevan Sewell, assistant professor in American history at the University of Nottingham, is the author of Eisenhower, Kennedy, and US Economic Policy in Latin America and coeditor of Projecting American Foreign Policy: Power and Intervention. Maria Ryan is assistant professor in American history at the University of Nottingham. She is the author of Neoconservatism and the New American Century.

Introduction
How the Periphery Became the Center: The Cold War, the Third World, and the Transformation in U.S. Strategic Thinking
Peripheral Vision: U.S. Modernization Efforts and the Periphery
Narratives of Core and Periphery: The Cold War and After
US Government Responses to Anti-Americanism at the Periphery
Peripheral Places/Global War
Whistling in the Dark: US Efforts to Navigate UN Policy toward Decolonization, 1945-1963
One World? Rethinking America's Margins, 1935-1945
Accidental Diplomats: The influence of American Evangelical Missionaries on Early US-Congolese Cold War Relations, 1945-1963
Structuring the Economy on the Periphery: The United States, the 1958 Argentine Stabilization Agreement, and the Evolution of Global Capitalism
Uncertainty Rising: Oil Power and International Terrorism in the 1970s
Libyan Petrodollars, the Financing of Terrorism, and U.S. Foreign Policy, 1969-1981
The Peripheral Centre: Nicaragua in US Policy and Imagination at the End of the Cold War
Enlargement and Its Discontents: Core and Periphery in Clinton-Era Foreign Policy
The 'War on Terror' and the New Periphery