Book chapter
Foreign Policy Begins at Home
Rethinking American Grand Strategy
Oxford University Press
06/03/2021
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190695668.003.0011
Abstract
This chapter focuses on ordinary Americans, central figures in a foreign policy conditioned by democratic politics and popular opinion. It offers another look at World War II and its legacies with a view to broader societal debates about America's role in the world, highlighting the tension between grand strategy and democracy. Ordinary citizens were part of these debates to a much greater extent than is generally acknowledged. Apart from opinion and election polls, citizen voices have often been shunned by politicians and scholars, who have dismissed them as ineffective and marginal, deplored them as racist or sectarian, and criticized them as isolationist or detrimental to American strategic interests. Attending to what citizens had to say about their country's international role, especially over the course of the transformative 1940s, brings unsettling questions into clearer focus: what purpose and whose interests do grand visions of foreign policy serve?
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Foreign Policy Begins at Home
- Creators
- Michaela Hoenicke Moore
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Rethinking American Grand Strategy
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press; New York
- DOI
- 10.1093/oso/9780190695668.003.0011
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/03/2021
- Academic Unit
- History; International Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9984397916902771
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