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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Information; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: thinking about America in the world over the longer run; 'The intellectual' and intellectuals in public life; The problem of continuity and rupture; To the Wisconsin School and beyond; The shape of the book; Notes; 1 The strange career of nation-building as a concept in US foreign policy; The historical teleology of American nation-building; The victims of nation-building; Conclusion: the strange career of nation-building and current policy-making; Notes.

2 Race, utopia, perpetual peace: Andrew Carnegie's dreamworldIntroduction; Beyond democracy: racialising perpetual peace; Looking ahead; The dreamer of dreams; Notes; 3 Carl Schmitt and the American century; Of states, wars and sea monsters; America and the Großräume order; Nuremberg and the tragic limits of international law; Technology and the Cold War; Into the abyss of total devaluation; Conclusion: Schmitt and the contemporary American right; Notes; 4 Realist exceptionalism: philosophy, politics and foreign policy in America's 'second modernity'; Introduction.

Exceptionalism(s) and the American beginningRealism and exceptionalism: a second American modernity?; American realism; Conclusion; Notes; 5 The social and political construction of the Cold War; The second major element: the struggle in the New Deal; The third element: the international situation; The pieces are in place; Conclusion; Notes; 6 Chaotic epic: Samuel Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order revisited; Civilisation and its critics; Beyond the contested concept; Method, morality and the public intellectual; Islam and public rhetoric; Notes.

7 Paul Wolfowitz and the promise of American power, 1969-2001Notes; Index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book offers a nuanced and multifaceted collection of essays covering a wide range of concerns, concepts, presidential doctrines, and rationalities of government thought to have marked America's engagement with the world during this period. The collection is organised chronologically and looks at the work of intellectuals who have written both in support and critically about US foreign policy in various geographical and historical contexts. This includes Andrew Carnegie, Carl Schmitt, Hans Morgenthau, George Kennan, Samuel Huntington, Paul Wolfowitz and many other such thinkers and practitioners who have contributed in shaping the ways in which we have come to think of US foreign policy over the years. The book will be of significant interest to students and academics within the fields of US foreign policy analysis, international relations and intellectual history.

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In English.