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Why Has The United States Assumed So Extensive And Costly A Role In World Affairs Over The Last Hundred Years? The Two Most Common Answers To This Question Are Because It Could And Because It Had To. Neither Answer Will Do, According To This Challenging Re-assessment Of The Way That America Came To Assume Its Global Role. The Country's Vast Economic Resources Gave It The Country's Vast Economic Resources Gave It The Capacity To Exercise Great Influence Abroad, But Americans Were Long Reluctant To Meet The Costs Of Wielding That Power. Neither The Country's Safety From Foreign Attack Nor Its Economic Well-being Required The Achievement Of Ambitious Foreign Policy Objectives. In A Sense Of Power, John A. Thompson Takes A Long View Of America's Dramatic Rise As A World Power, From The Late Nineteenth Century Into The Post-world War Ii Era. How, And More Importantly Why, Has America Come To Play Such A Dominant Role In World Affairs? There Is, He Argues, No Simple Answer.^ Thompson Challenges Conventional Explanations Of America's Involvement In World War I And World War Ii, Seeing Neither The Requirements Of National Security Nor Economic Interests As Determining. He Shows How America

Author

John A. Thompson

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501701771

Subjects

History, Political Science, Science

Rating

3.3 / 5 (9 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14