Cold War US Foreign Policy: Key Perspectives

Steven Hurst

This book offers a comprehensive description and critique of the six most important historical interpretations of U.S. Cold War foreign policy: traditionalism, revisionism, postrevisionism, corporatism, world systems theory, and poststructuralism. In each chapter a description of the perspective’s underlying theoretical framework and how it explains U.S. foreign policy is followed by a critique of that theory. This critical companion reveals how historians have sought to explain U.S. Cold War foreign policy and the key differences between their perspectives.

Related Subjects

• History

About the Author

Steven Hurst is a senior lecturer in politics at the Manchester Metropolitan University.

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