American Exceptionalism: An Idea that Made a Nation and Remade the World

By Hilde Eliassen Restad

Book Overview

This book offers a different account of the relationship between the American identity of exceptionalism and U.S. foreign policy. Conventional wisdom suggests that a "schizophrenic" American exceptionalist identity has inspired a dichotomous foreign policy tradition that cycles between isolationism and internationalism. Challenging this view the author argues that there instead has been a continuous and strong unilateral internationalist foreign policy throughout U.S. history.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138096768
• ISBN13: 9781138096769
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"