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For decades the United States has been the most dominant player on the world’s stage. The country’s economic authority, its globally forceful foreign policy, and its leading position in international institutions tend to be seen as the result of a long-standing, deliberate drive to become a major global force. Furthermore, it has become widely accepted that American exceptionalismthe belief that America is a country like no other in historyhas been at the root of many of the country’s political, military, and global moves. Frank Ninkovich disagrees. One of the preeminent intellectual historians of our time, Ninkovich delivers here his most ambitious and sweeping book to date. He argues that historically the United States has been driven not by a belief in its destiny or its special character but rather by a need to survive the forces of globalization. He builds the powerful case that American foreign policy has long been based on and entangled in questions of global engagement, while also showing that globalization itself has always been distinct fromand sometimes in direct conflict withwhat we call international society. In the second half of the twentieth century, the United

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Author

Frank Anthony Ninkovich

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226173337

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, History, Social Science