{"id":3777,"date":"2020-08-15T13:51:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T13:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/?p=3777"},"modified":"2020-08-20T16:55:48","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T16:55:48","slug":"mapping-american-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/2020\/08\/15\/mapping-american-diplomacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping American Diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Ever since George Washington&#8217;s Administration, Americans have debated the following questions:\u00a0 Should the national government cooperate with business to build the economy through trade and tariffs?\u00a0 Should the extension of democracy, the defense of human rights, and the construction of a world order based on international law stand at the center of U.S. foreign policy?\u00a0 Is the hope a peaceful world a beguiling illusion, and should the United States therefore build up a strong defense system to protect itself?\u00a0 \u00a0Should Americans seek to minimize foreign entanglements and shun foreign quarrels to focus on strengthening democracy at home?\u00a0 To ignore the history of these debates is shortsighted, for a thorough understanding of how these issues have shaped U.S. foreign policy in the past can help shape the present &#8211;both for policymakers and for the American public.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Walter Russell Mead, &#8220;The American Foreign Policy Legacy,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Foreign Affairs\u00a0<\/em>81 (Jan.-Feb. 2002): 164-65<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Discussion Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Which of these organizing questions are most intriguing to you?<\/li>\n<li>What other questions might Mead have posed that could help address recurring or important themes in U.S. foreign policy?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/files\/2020\/08\/Discussion-8-20-20-HIST-282.pdf\">DISCUSSION TRANSCRIPT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_3764\" style=\"width: 950px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/files\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-15-at-7.56.28-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3764\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3764\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/files\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-15-at-7.56.28-AM-1024x499.png\" alt=\"Diplomatic cartoon\" width=\"940\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/files\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-15-at-7.56.28-AM-1024x499.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/files\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-15-at-7.56.28-AM-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/files\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-15-at-7.56.28-AM-768x374.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/files\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-15-at-7.56.28-AM-500x244.png 500w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/files\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-15-at-7.56.28-AM.png 1232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3764\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The illustration above appeared in Walter Russell Mead&#8217;s article on &#8220;The American Foreign Policy Legacy.&#8221; Can you identify the five figures caricatured here?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3770\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/files\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-15-at-8.24.13-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3770\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3770\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/files\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-15-at-8.24.13-AM-740x1024.png\" alt=\"chart\" width=\"740\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3770\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here is a revealing chart from Mead&#8217;s 2002 book, &#8220;Special Providence,&#8221; but it does contain one small error.\u00a0 Can you identify the mistake?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2013 Interview with Walter Russell Mead<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FQPHOsHi0OE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this interview, Mead, a noted diplomatic history professor at Bard College, mentions Noam Chomsky and Henry Kissinger as two figure who have two radically different views of US diplomatic history.\u00a0 To find out more about Chomsky and the radical critique of US diplomatic history, see Michael Henderson, \u201cProfessionals or Pariahs?\u00a0 Noam Chomsky, William Appleman Williams and the American Historical Profession,\u201d\u00a0<em>Australasian Journal of American Studies\u00a0<\/em>1 (July 1997): 45-70 [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/41415909\">JSTOR<\/a>].\u00a0 To capture a glimpse of the Kissinger world-view on balance-of-power politics, offered at about the same time that Mead wrote his article, \u201cAmerican Foreign Policy Legacy\u201d (and his book, <em>Special Providence<\/em>), see an excerpt from Kissinger\u2019s 2001 book,\u00a0<em>Does America Need a Foreign Policy?\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>available from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/movies2.nytimes.com\/books\/first\/k\/kissinger-01policy.html\">New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Ever since George Washington&#8217;s Administration, Americans have debated the following questions:\u00a0 Should the national government cooperate with business to build the economy through trade and tariffs?\u00a0 Should the extension of democracy, the defense of human rights, and the construction of a world order based on international law stand at the center of U.S. foreign policy?\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71431],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syllabus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}