Isolationism - Charles A Kupchan

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Résumé :
This is the first book to examine the full arc of American isolationism, from the founding era through the Trump presidency. Charles Kupchan tells the fascinating story of why isolationism dominated US statecraft for so long, uncovers isolationism's enduring connection to American exceptionalism, and explains why an aversion to foreign entanglement is making a comeback. This fresh account of American history sheds revealing light on not only the nation's past, but also where US grand strategy is headed and how the nation can find the middle ground between isolationism and strategic overreach....

Biographie:
Dr. Charles A. Kupchan is Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. From 2014-2017 Kupchan served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European Affairs on the National Security Council in the Obama White House. He was Director for European Affairs on the NSC during the first Clinton administration. Prior, he worked in the U.S. Department of State on the Policy Planning Staff. Kupchan has served as a visiting scholar at Harvard University's Center for International Affairs, Columbia University's Institute for War and Peace Studies, and other renowned institutions. He was a Henry A. Kissinger Scholar at the Library of Congress, a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a Senior Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy, and a recipient of the Hubert H. Humphrey Award for notable public service by a political scientist.

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Sommaire:

• Preface


• 1. American Isolationism: Past as Prelude?


• 2. An Anatomy of Isolationism


• Part I - The Era of Isolationism, 1789-1898


• 3. The Revolutionary Era: Contemplating Nonentanglement


• 4. From the French Revolution to the War of 1812: Isolationism as Doctrine


• 5. Westward Expansion and the Monroe Doctrine: The Limits of Hemispheric Ambition


• 6. The Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Rise of American Power: Restraint Amid Ascent


• Part II - The Defeat of Realist and Idealist Internationalism, 1898-1941


• 7. The Spanish-American War and the Onset of Imperial Ambition


• 8. Republican Imperialism and the Isolationist Backlash


• 9. Wilsonian Idealism and the Isolationist Backlash


• 10. The 1920s: Influence without Responsibility


• 11. From the Great Depression to Pearl Harbor: Delusions of Strategic Immunity


• Part III - The Rise and Fall of Liberal Internationalism, 1941-2020


• 12. World War II and the Cold War: The Era of Liberal Internationalism


• 13. The End of the Cold War and the Isolationist Comeback


• 14. Between Isolationism and Liberal Internationalism: The Search for a Middle Ground