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The officially stated goals of the foreign policy of the United States of America, including all the bureaus and offices in the United States Department of State, [1] as mentioned in the Foreign Policy Agenda of the Department of State, are "to build and sustain a more democratic, secure, and prosperous world for the benefit of the American people and the international community". [2]
Bemis's The Diplomacy of the American Revolution, published originally in 1935, is still the standard work on the subject. It emphasized the danger of American entanglement in European quarrels. European diplomacy in the eighteenth century was "rotten, corrupt, and perfidious," warned Bemis.
McKinley was assassinated in September 1901 and was succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt. He was the foremost of the five key men whose ideas and energies reshaped American foreign policy: John Hay (1838-1905); Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924); Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914); and Elihu Root (1845-1937).
1960 – Cuba seizes $1.5 billion of American properties; America imposes complete trade embargo (except food, medicine) continues in effect in 2012; 1961 – President John F. Kennedy launches Space Race, promising Americans on the Moon; they landed July 20, 1969; 1961 McGeorge Bundy becomes US National Security Advisor. 1961 – Cuba. America ...
The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931 (2014) audio; emphasis on economics; Tucker, Robert W. Woodrow Wilson and the Great War: Reconsidering America's Neutrality (U of Virginia Press, 2007). Venzon, Anne ed. The United States in the First World War: An Encyclopedia (1995), Very thorough coverage.
As former president of the BBG and 2008 undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, James K. Glassman says, "U.S. international broadcasting is America's largest civilian public diplomacy program, and one that "provides a lifeline to people seeking the truth" in many closed societies." [15]
In Panama, a bridge to connect the country highlights China’s growing diplomatic presence and sway, while the U.S. goes four-and-a-half years without an ambassador.
Many of the charter's ideas came from an ideology of Anglo-American internationalism, which sought British-American co-operation for international security. [5] Roosevelt's attempts to tie Britain to concrete war aims and Churchill's desperation to bind the US to the war effort helped to provide motivations for the meeting that produced the ...