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R. May, The Making of the Monroe Doctrine (Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 1975). The latter stresses domestic
political considerations and argues that the Monroe Doctrine
was “actually the by-product of an election campaign.”


  1. Daniel M. Smith, The Great Departure: The United States and
    World War I, 1914–1920 (New York: John Wiley, 1965).

  2. Thomas J. Knock, To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the
    Quest for a New World Order (New York: Oxford University
    Press, 1992).

  3. Margaret MacMillan, Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed
    the World (New York: Random House, 2001).

  4. John M. Cooper, Breaking the Heart of the World: Woodrow
    Wilson and the Fight for the League of Nations (New York:
    Cambridge University Press, 2001).

  5. John Lewis Gaddis, Strategies of Containment (New York:
    Oxford University Press, 2005).

  6. Tony Smith, “Making the World Safe for Democracy in the
    American Century,” Diplomatic History 23:2 (1999): 173–88.

  7. Winston Churchill, “Sinews of Peace (Iron Curtain),” West-
    minster College, Fulton, MO, March 5, 1946, available from
    the Churchill Centre at http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/
    pages/index.cfm?pageid=429 (accessed 8/2/08). See also
    Klaus Larres, Churchill’s Cold War: The Politics of Personal
    Diplomacy (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002).

  8. George F. Kennan, “The Sources of Soviet Conduct,” Foreign
    Aff airs 25:4 (July 1947): 566–82.

  9. Robert L. Beisner, Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War (New
    York: Oxford University Press, 2006); Dean Acheson, Present
    at the Creation (New York: Norton, 1969).

  10. Michael J. Hogan, The Marshall Plan: America, Britain, and
    the Reconstruction of Western Europe (New York: Cambridge
    University Press, 1987). See also Martin Schain, ed., The Mar-
    shall Plan: Fifty Years Later (New York: Palgrave, 2001).

  11. Marc Trachtenberg, A Constructed Peace: The Making of the
    European Settlement, 1945–1963 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton
    University Press, 1999).

  12. The balance of military power between NATO and the Warsaw
    Pact throughout the Cold War is traced in David Miller, The Cold
    War: A Military History (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998).

  13. Robert A. Packenham, Liberal America and the Third World
    (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973). For an
    overview, see David P. Forsythe, “Human Rights in U.S. For-
    eign Policy: Retrospect and Prospect,” Political Science Quar-
    terly 105:3 (Autumn, 1990): 435–54.

  14. Lawrence Freedman, Kennedy’s Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and
    Vietnam (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).

  15. William J. Duiker, Sacred War: Nationalism and Revolution in
    a Divided Vietnam (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995).

  16. Henry Kissinger, Years of Upheaval (Boston: Little, Brown,
    1982); Jussi Hanhimäki, The Flawed Architect: Henry Kiss-
    inger and American Foreign Policy (New York: Oxford Univer-
    sity Press, 2004).

  17. Raymond Garthoff , Détente and Confrontation: American-
    Soviet Relations from Nixon to Reagan (Washington, DC:
    Brookings Institution Press, 1994).

  18. R. Kent Weaver, Ending Welfare as We Know It (Washington,
    DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2000).

  19. See the analysis of welfare reform by the Center on Budget
    and Policy Priorities, http://www.cbpp.org/pubs/tanf.htm, or by the
    Urban Institute, http://www.urban.org/toolkit/issues/welfarereform
    .cfm (accessed 8/18/08).

  20. U.S. Department of Education, Race to the Top fund, www2
    .ed.gov/programs/racetothetop/index.html (accessed 2/23/10).

  21. Amanda Paulson, “The Next Race to the Top? Arne Dun-
    can Outlines Vision for Teacher Reform,” Christian Sci-
    ence Monitor, February 15, 2012, http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/
    Education/2012/0215/The-next-Race-to-the-Top-Arne
    -Duncan-outlines-vision-for-teacher-reform (accessed 3/14/12).


You Decide


a. John Tierney, “The Sagebrush Solution,” New York Times,
July 26, 2005, p. A19. Aditional information was drawn from
http://www.highcountrynews.org.
b. A very detailed account of this saga may be found in Raymond
B. Wrabley Jr., “Managing the Monument: Cows and Con-
servation in the Grand-Staircase-Escalante National Monu-
ment,” Journal of Land, Resources and Environmental Law
29:2 (2009): 253–80.


CHAPTER 15



  1. Helene Cooper and David Sanger, “Obama Says Afghan Policy
    Won’t Change after Dismissal,” New York Times, June 23,
    2010, p. A1.

  2. Mark Mazzeti and Eric Schmitt, “C.I.A Missile Strike May
    Have Killed Pakistan’s Taliban Leader,” New York Times,
    August 6, 2009, p. A7.

  3. For an example of the isolationist approach, see Justin Rai-
    mondo, “Out of Iraq, into Darfur?” American Conservative,
    June 5, 2006. For a longer exposition of isolationism, see
    Patrick J. Buchanan, A Republic, Not an Empire, updated ed.
    (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2002).

  4. Robert O. Keohane, After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord
    in the International System (1984; repr. Princeton, NJ: Princ-
    eton University Press, 2005).

  5. The distinction was fi rst made in E. H. Carr, The Twenty
    Years’ Crisis, 1919–1939: An Introduction to the Study of Inter-
    national Relations (London: Macmillan, 1939). Realism was
    elaborated as a general theory in Hans Morgenthau, Politics
    among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace (New York:
    Knopf, 1948). For a general overview, see Jonathan Haslam,
    No Virtue like Necessity: Realist Thought in International
    Relations since Machiavelli (New Haven, CT: Yale University
    Press, 2002).

  6. A synoptic account of the United States as a world power,
    which takes the story up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, is Niall
    Ferguson, Colossus: The Price of America’s Empire (New York:
    Penguin Press, 2004).

  7. Samuel Flagg Bemis, John Quincy Adams and the Foundations
    of American Foreign Policy (New York: Knopf, 1949); Ernest

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