Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations

This collection of essays seeks to define the study of American relations.

Highlighting a variety of conceptual categories, this collection of essays seeks to define the study of American relations, stimulate research in new directions, and encourage inter-disciplinary thinking, especially between historians and political scientists.This collection of essays presents many of the newer, innovative, and stimulating analytical approaches and methods used to study the history of American foreign relations. The essays highlight a variety of conceptual categories, including bureaucratic, dependency, and world-systems theories, corporatist and national security models, culture, gender, and ideology. The book seeks to define the study of American relations, stimulate research in fresh directions, and encourage cross-disciplinary thinking, especially between historians and political scientists.