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Description: Modernity and Power : A History of the Domino Theory in the Twentieth Century, Paperback by Ninkovich, Frank A., ISBN 0226586510, ISBN-13 9780226586519, Brand New, Free shipping in the US

Modernity and Power provides a fresh conceptual overview of twentieth-century United States foreign policy, from the Roosevelt and Taft administrations through the presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson. Beginning with Woodrow Wilson, American leaders gradually abandoned the idea of international relations as a game of geopolitical interplays, basing their diplomacy instead on a symbolic opposition between "world public opinion" and the forces of destruction and chaos. Frank Ninkovich provocatively links this policy shift to the rise of a distinctly modernist view of history.

To emphasize the central role of symbolism and ideological assumptions in twentieth-century American statesmanship, Ninkovich focuses on the domino theory—a theory that departed radically from classic principles of political realism by sanctioning intervention in world regions with few financial or geographic claims on the national interest. Ninkovich insightfully traces the development of this global strategy from its first appearance early in the century through the Vietnam war.

Throughout th, Ninkovich draws on primary sources to recover the worldview of the policy makers. He carefully assesses the coherence of their views rather than judge their actions against "objective" realities. Offering a new alternative to realpolitic and economic explanations of foreign policy, Modernity and Power will change the way we think about the history of . international relations.

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Book Title: Modernity and Power : A History of the Domino Theory in the Twent

Number of Pages: 436 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Modernity and Power : a History of the Domino Theory in the Twentieth Century

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Subject: World / General, International Relations / General

Publication Year: 1994

Item Height: 0.1 in

Item Weight: 25.7 Oz

Type: Textbook

Subject Area: Political Science

Author: Frank Ninkovich

Item Length: 0.9 in

Item Width: 0.7 in

Format: Trade Paperback

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