A Faustian Foreign Policy from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush: Dreams of Perfectibility

Professor Joan Hoff's A Faustian Foreign Policy: Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush critiques U.S. foreign policy during this period by showing how moralistic diplomacy has increasingly taken on Faustian overtones. As long as the ideological outcome of the Cold War remained in doubt, there was little reason for presidents or government decision makers to question the unethical aspects of U.S. relations with the rest of the world or the universal and exceptional nature of American values. September 11 allowed the United States to assert its exceptionalism and dominance more unilaterally than ever before.

Author: Joan Hoff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 01/01/2008
Pages: 308
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.15h x 6.29w x 0.68d
ISBN: 9780521714044

About the Author
Hoff, Joan: - Joan Hoff is the former CEO and President of the Center for the Study of the Presidency in New York City, former Executive Secretary of the Organization of American Historians, and former Professor of History and Director of the Contemporary History Institute at Ohio University. She is now Research Professor of History at Montana State University, Bozeman.