About the Book

This four-volume collection brings together the academic writings of scholars who have examined America's foreign policy through the lens of diverse and often contradictory political traditions that stretch back to the founding of the United States, including liberalism, 'messianism' and 'isolationism'. The selected papers address the historical development of these traditions, their application for understanding contemporary US foreign policy, the emergence of new traditions such as neoconservatism, and the perpetual existence of 'anti-Americanism'.

The SAGE Library of International Relations brings together the most influential and field-defining articles, both classical and contemporary, in a number of key areas of research and inquiry in International Relations.

Each multi-volume set represents a collection of the essential published works collated from the foremost publications in the field by an editor or editorial team of renowned international stature.

They also include a full introduction, presenting a rationale for the selection and mapping out the discipline's past, present and likely future.

This series is designed to be a 'gold standard' for university libraries throughout the world with an interest in International Relations.

Table of Contents:
VOLUME ONE: THE FOUNDATIONS THE AMERICA TRADITION The Idea of Foreign Policy Traditions Tradition as Invention - Renée Jeffery The American Tradition The American Foreign Policy Tradition - Walter Russell Mead The New World Order - Henry Kissinger Colonial Origins of American Diplomatic Principles - Max Savelle Back to Bedrock: The eight traditions of American statecraft - Walter McDougall Farewell to the Farewell Address? Or a ′discourse of the permanent and transient in American politics - Michael Dunne Messianism, Exceptionalism and Realism Liberty or Exceptionalism (so Called) - Walter McDougall Messianism, Exemplary and Dynamic - Anatol Lieven An American Tradition in Foreign Affairs - Norman A. Graebner The British Inheritance/Enemy Introduction and the Gyroscope and the Pyramid - Walter Russell Mead Friendly Fire - Bernard Porter Washington′s Legacy and Unilateralism Intellectual Foundations of Early American Diplomacy - James Hutson Unilaterialism, or Isolationalism (so Called) - Walter McDougall The Hamiltonian Tradition Hamilton′s Way - Walter Russell Mead The Jeffersonian Tradition Jefferson and the Diplomacy of the Old Regime and Conquering Without War - Robert Tucker and David Hendrickson Jefferson and an American Foreign Policy - Walter LaFeber The Jacksonian Tradition Antithesis Part 1: The embittered heartland - Anatol Lieven Taking Center Stage: Southerners and Vietnam, 1954 - 1973 - Joseph Fry VOLUME TWO: THE TRADITIONS OF GREAT POWER AMERICA The Monroe Doctrine and Manifest Destiny The Evolution of the Monroe Doctrine from Monroe to Reagan - Walter LaFeber Destinies and Destinations, 1820-1865 - Andreas Stephanson America Imperialism? Is there American Imperialism - Dexter Perkins Imperialism, American Style, 1890-1916 - Joseph Fry Anti-Imperialism Anti-Imperialism - Robert Buzzanco 1898 and 1968: The Anti-Imperialists and the Doves - Robert L. Beisner Open Door Policy and Williams′ Extension Open Door Policy - Mark Atwood Lawrence The Tragedy of American Diplomacy: Twenty-five years after - Bradford Perkins The Open Door and American Hegemony in Western Hegemony in Western Europe - Christopher Layne Isolationism and the Anti-War Tradition The Isolationist Heritage - C. V. Crabb The Renunciation of War - Arthur A. Ekirch The Wilsonian Tradition and American Liberalism The Connecticut Yankee in the Court of King Arthur - Walter Russell Mead Liberal Democratic Internationalism - Tony Smith Hegemony on the Cheap - Colin Dueck Containment and American Realism Containment - Walter McDougall Prophets and poseurs - Andrew J. Bacevich The Past and the Future Trade Offs - Henry Nau VOLUME THREE: ANTI-AMERICAN TRADITION A History of Anti-Americanism - Brendon O′Connor Early History: Environmental, Cultural and Political Inferiority European Anti-Americanism: A brief historical overview - Andrei Markovits Imagining America - David Kennedy American Response to the Degeneracy Thesis - James Ceaser The Age of Contempt - Philippe Roger America Has Gone Mad: Anti-Americanism in historical perspective - Tony Judt America and the British Reform Struggle, 1865-7 and Conclusion: The British left and America since Roosevelt - Henry Pelling Cold War Anti-Americanism The Pilgrimage to Nicaragua - Paul Hollander Was De Gaulle Anti-American? - Richard F. Kuisel Anti-Americanism at Home and Abroad - Henry Fairlie A Factual Epilogue - William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick The Changeable Soviet Image of America - Vladimir Shlapentokh After September 11, 2001 How the World sees America - Richard Crockett Who′s Afraid of Mr. Big? - Josef Joffe Introduction: The new virulence and popularity - Paul Hollander America as Super-Villain - Barry Rubin and Judith Colp Rubin Are We All Americans Now - Robert Singh Acting Together - Or Alone - Andrew Kohut and Bruce Stokes The Worst Society That Ever Was - Jean-Francois Revel Bush and Anti-Americanism Bush and Anti-Americanism - Brendon O′Connor George W. Bush, Religion and European Anti-Americanism - D. Jason Bergrenn and Nicol Rae VOLUME FOUR: REGIONAL AND NATIONAL VARIETIES OF ANTI-AMERICANISM Anti-Americanism in the Third World - Alvin Z. Rubenstein and Donald E. Smith Anti-Americanism in Latin America and the Caribbean: False populism or coming full circle? - Alan McPherson The 3:10 to Yuma - Ana Maria Dopico ′Bradenism′ and Beyond: Argentine anti-Americanism, 1945-1953 - Glenn J. Dorn Anti-Americanism in Canada - Kim Richard Nossal Anti-Americanism in Russia: From Stalin to Putin - Eric Shiraev and Vladislav Zubok Anti-Americanism in French and European Public Opinion - Gerard Grunberg Anti-Americanisms in France - Sophie Meunier Turkey - Julie E. Sweig The Anti-American Century - Ivan Krastev America in Asian Eyes - Warren I. Cohen and Nancy Bernkopf Tucker Yongmi: Pragmatic anti-Americanism in South Korea - Yongshik Bong Chinese attitudes toward the United States and Americans - Alastair Iain Johnston and Daniela Stockman Iran - Wilfried Buchta America, Israel and Anti-Americanism in the Middle East - John Chiddick American Power and Anti-Americanism in the Middle East - Timothy Mitchell