Rogue Diplomats - The Proud Tradition of Disobedience in American Foreign Policy

Sommario

Introduction; 1. "It Is Glory to Have Broken Such Infamous Orders": Adams, Jay, and Franklin Midwife the Republic; 2. "Service without Authority": Livingston and Monroe Buy Louisiana; 3. "Instructions or No Instructions": Trist Makes Peace with Mexico; 4. "I Have Now Read the Dispatch, But I Do Not Agree with It": Page Preserves America's "Special Relationship"; 5. "No 'Rubber Stamp' Ambassador": Kennedy Appeases the Dictators; 6. "We Can't Fire Him": Lodge Engineers a Coup; Conclusion

Info autore

Seth Jacobs is Professor of History at Boston College and the author of The Universe Unraveling: American Foreign Policy in Cold War Laos (2012), Cold War Mandarin: Ngo Dinh Diem and the Origins of America's War in Vietnam, 1950-1963 (2006), and America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia, 1950-1957 (2004).

Riassunto

Historians have long ignored America's record of diplomatic indiscipline. Rogue Diplomats redresses that deficiency, demonstrating that titanic accomplishments such as the Louisiana Purchase resulted in great part because diplomats refused to follow instructions.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Seth Jacobs, Seth (Boston College Jacobs, Jacobs Seth
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781107079472
• ISBN: 978-1-107-07947-2
• Pagine: 406
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Us Foreig; Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, military history, International Relations, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas