Power and Principle, Memoirs of the National Security Adviser 1977-1981

This incisive interpretation of American foreign policy ranks as a classic in American thought. First published in 1959, the book offered an analysis of the wellsprings of American foreign policy that shed light on the tensions of the Cold War and the deeper impulses leading to the American intervention in Vietnam. William Appleman Williams brilliantly explores the ways in which ideology and political economy intertwined over time to propel American expansion and empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The powerful relevance of Williams's interpretation to world politics has only been strengthened by recent events in Central Asia and the Persian Gulf. Williams allows us to see that the interests and beliefs that once sent American troops into Texas and California, or Latin America and East Asia, also propelled American forces into Iraq.

The Tragedy of American Diplomacy

During the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, while key decisions were debated by the victorious Allied powers, a multitude of smaller nations and colonies held their breath, waiting to see how their fates would be decided. President Woodrow Wilson, in his Fourteen Points, had called for "a free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims," giving equal weight would be given to the opinions of the colonized peoples and the colonial powers. Among those nations now paying close attention to Wilson's words and actions were the budding nationalist leaders of four disparate non-Western societies-Egypt, India, China, and Korea. That spring, Wilson's words would help ignite political upheavals in all four of these countries. This book is the first to place the 1919 Revolution in Egypt, the Rowlatt Satyagraha in India, the May Fourth movement in China, and the March First uprising in Korea in the context of a broader "Wilsonian moment" that challenged the existing international order. Using primary source material from America, Europe, and Asia, historian Erez Manela tells the story of how emerging nationalist movements appropriated Wilsonian language and adapted it to their own local culture and politics as they launched into action on the international stage. The rapid disintegration of the Wilsonian promise left a legacy of disillusionment and facilitated the spread of revisionist ideologies and movements in these societies; future leaders of Third World liberation movements - Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh, and Jawaharlal Nehru, among others - were profoundly shaped by their experiences at the time. The importance of the Paris Peace Conference and Wilson's influence on international affairs far from the battlefields of Europe cannot be underestimated. Now, for the first time, we can clearly see just how the events played out at Versailles sparked a wave of nationalism that is still resonating globally today.

The Wilsonian moment : self determination and the international origins of anticolonial nationalism, 1917-1920

1. Frameworks of Analysis Section A: Changing Contexts 2. Forging a Relationship 3. The Changing Operational Landscape 4. The New Societal Setting Section B: New Dilemmas 5. A Smaller and Smarter IDF? 6. From Nation-Binder to Nation-Divider? 7. The Appropriate Application of Force? Section C: Prospects 8. Future Challenges and their Resolution

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Israel: A Revolutionary Miracle in Palestine —The Rise of Israel: A History of a Revolutionary State—Israel and Its Army: From Cohesion to Confusion

Retracing the confused pattern of planning for escalation of the Vietnam War, Moise reconstructs the events of the night of August 4, 1964, when the U.S. Navy destroyers \"Maddox\" and \"Turner Joy\" reported that they were under attack by North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin. Using declassified records and interviews with the participants, Moise demonstrates that there was no North Vietnamese attack; the original report was a genuine mistake.

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Tonkin Gulf and the Escalation of the Vietnam War

This book examines the changing meanings Americans and Israelis invested in the relationship between their countries from the late 1950s to the 1980s. Bringing to light previously unexamined sources, this study is the first to investigate the intricate mechanisms that defined and redefined Israel's place in American imagination through the war-strewn 1960s and 1970s. Departing from traditional diplomatic histories that focus on the political elites alone, Shaul Mitelpunkt places the relationship deep in the cultural, social, intellectual, and ideological landscapes of both societies. Examining Israeli propaganda operations in America, Mitelpunkt also pays close attention to the way Israelis manipulated and responded to American perceptions of their country, and reveals the reservations some expressed towards their country's relationship with the United States. By contextualizing the relationship within the changing domestic concerns in both countries, this book provides a truly transnational history of US-Israeli relations.

Israel in the American Mind: The Cultural Politics of US-Israeli Relations, 1958–1988

This article examines the effects the peace-making efforts of Israeli aviator, restaurateur and peace activist Abie Nathan to promote peace in the Middle East between the 1960s and 1990s had on the...

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The diplomacy of spectacle: Abie Nathan and the limits of Israeli peace activism, 1966–1993

editorial missteps. Rather ironically, given the Senator’s notoriety for getting his numbers wrong, the excerpt from McCarthy’s Wheeling speech misquotes his estimates of the global communist and capitalist populations by several orders of magnitude (). (This error seems to have originally come from an Essential Documents sourcebook; however, I say “seems” because the text does not always fully identify its sources in the footnotes.) For a book calledMcCarthyism, the decision to devote roughly half the book to the pre-McCarthy period may seem odd. However, given the tendency over recent decades to stretch the subject back and to argue for a degree of continuity in Red Scare politics from the nineteenth century onwards, it makes sense. It also fits the likely structure of a teaching module on the topic. That said, it would have been good to have just a little more time devoted to the McCarthy era. The key chapter on the Second Red Scare is also structured in a slightly peculiar manner, beginning with a discussion of the Communist Control Act of , then moving back to McCarthy’s Wheeling speech in , before jumping even further back to Yalta, then moving forward from the Hiss case into the Second Red Scare. This doesn’t aid clarity. There is a bit of jumping around elsewhere, too. Elizabeth Dilling’s The Red Network () is referenced on page , for example, but she and the book are only explained on page . And the “culture” chapter includes discussions of religion, education, consumerism, health care, homosexuality, and race (in the South), but less on gender or class, which mostly pop up earlier. Putting such quibbles to one side, this book succeeds admirably at its core goal of providing an energetic and accessible introduction to the subject. Those teaching McCarthyism at school or university should give it a look.

Douglas Walter Bristol Jr. and Heather Marie Stur (eds.), Integrating the U.S. Military: Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation since World War II (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017, $29.95). Pp. 240. isbn978 1 4214 2247 3.

In September 1991 Walt Disney's legal representatives in Israel sued prolific Israeli cartoonist Dudu Geva for using the figure of Donald Duck without permission. The case, which worked its way to the Israeli Supreme Court, sparked a broader conversation in Israel about the place of American cultural icons and idioms in Israeli life. While existing treatments emphasize Jewish Israeli optimism with American influence on their lives, the article demonstrates that some Jewish Israelis had a conflicted relationship with American hegemony, even as their state enjoyed unparalleled privilege under American patronage. 

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Duck Fights: Walt Disney versus Dudu Geva and the Politics of Americanization in Late Twentieth-Century Israel

Journal Article The Cinematic Front Get access Tony Shaw Giora Goodman. Hollywood and Israel: A History.New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 368 pp. $120.00 (hardcover). Shaul Mitelpunkt Shaul Mitelpunkt shaul.mitelpunkt@york.ac.uk Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, dhad042, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhad042 Published: 05 July 2023 

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Israel in the American Mind: The Cultural Politics of US-Israeli Relations, 1958–1988

The diplomacy of spectacle: Abie Nathan and the limits of Israeli peace activism, 1966–1993

Douglas Walter Bristol Jr. and Heather Marie Stur (eds.), Integrating the U.S. Military: Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation since World War II (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017, $29.95). Pp. 240. isbn978 1 4214 2247 3.

Duck Fights: Walt Disney versus Dudu Geva and the Politics of Americanization in Late Twentieth-Century Israel

The Cinematic Front