U.S. Diplomacy Since 1900

Interest in U.S. foreign relations has soared to great heights in the early twenty-first century. Long admired as the most comprehensive and accessible American diplomacy survey available, U.S. Diplomacy Since 1900 has never been more relevant. Now in its sixth edition, the book chronicles the major events in the history of U.S. foreign relations, from the Spanish-American-Philippine War to the present. In this engaging narrative, Robert D. Schulzinger discusses public ideas about foreign relations and explains how U.S. foreign policy is made; he places U.S. foreign relations in the context of the growing interdependence and globalization of international affairs. Updated to include a complete account of the second Bush administration, the new edition also addresses the developments that both preceded and followed the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In the aftermath of this violence, Schulzinger considers whether the U.S. has become an empire and, if so, how that empire is defined. The sixth edition also provides updated, streamlined, and enhanced material throughout and features an array of vibrant new photographs. In this dynamic text, students will encounter the latest scholarship in the history of international affairs, which incorporates valuable insights from related disciplines in the social sciences and humanities--including work on gender, race, ethnicity, and intellectual history. Distinguished by its combination of narrative and analysis and by its in-depth explanations of how and why policy is created, U.S. Diplomacy Since 1900, Sixth Edition, is an invaluable resource for students of diplomatic history, foreign relations, and political science.

Robert D. Schulzinger is a College of Arts & Sciences Professor of Distinction of History and International Affairs at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is author of A Time for Peace: The Legacy of the Vietnam War (OUP, 2006); A Time for War: The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975 (OUP, 1998); Henry Kissinger: Doctor of Diplomacy (1991); Wise Men of Foreign Affairs: The History of the Council on Foreign Relations (1984); and coauthor of Present Tense: The United States Since 1945, Third Edition (2003); and Coming of Age: America in the Twentieth Century (1998).