David Ekbladh: 2 books
The Great American Mission
Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
The Great American Mission traces how America's global modernization efforts during the twentieth century were a means to remake the world in its own image. David Ekbladh shows that the emerging concept of modernization combined existing development ideas from the Depression. He describes how ambitious...
Foreign Policy at the Periphery
The Shifting Margins of US International Relations since World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
As American interests assumed global proportions after 1945, policy makers were faced with the challenge of prioritizing various regions and determining the extent to which the United States was prepared to defend and support them. Superpowers and developing nations soon became inextricably linked...