Can I read Special Providence : American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World on EtoBox?

Special Providence : American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World by Mead, Walter Russell is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Special Providence : American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World about?

From one of our leading experts on foreign policy, a full-scale reinterpretation of America’s dealings—from its earliest days—with the rest of the world.It is Walter Russell Mead’s thesis that the United States, by any standard, has had a more successful foreign policy than any of the other great powers that we have faced—and faced down. Beginning as an isolated string of settlements at the edge of the known world, this country—in two centuries—drove the French and the Spanish out of North America; forced Britain, then the world’s greatest empire, to respect American interests; dominated coalitions that defeated German and Japanese bids for world power; replaced the tottering British Empire with a more flexible and dynamic global system built on American power; triumphed in the Cold War; and exported its language, culture, currency, and political values throughout the world. Yet despite, and often because of, this success, both Americans and foreigners over the decades have routinely considered American foreign policy to be amateurish and blundering, a political backwater and an intellectual wasteland. Now, in this provocative study, Mead revisits our history to counter these appra

Author

Mead, Walter Russell

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780203821626

Subjects

Political Science, History, Social Science

Rating

4.05 / 5 (309 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14