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Roosevelt's Lost Alliances
In the spring of 1945, as the Allied victory in Europe was approaching, the shape of the postwar world hinged on the personal politics and flawed personalities of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin. Roosevelt's Lost Alliances captures this moment and shows how FDR crafted a winning coalition by overcoming the different habits, upbringings, sympathies, and past experiences of the three leaders. In particular, Roosevelt trained his famous charm on Stalin, lavishing respect on him, salving his insecurities, and rendering him more amenable to compromise on some matters.
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Explaining the history of American foreign relations
\"Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations, 3rd Edition presents substantially revised and new essays on traditional themes such as national security, corporatism, borderlands history, and international relations theory. The book also highlights such innovative conceptual approaches and analytical methods as computational analysis, symbolic borders, modernization and technopolitics, nationalism, non-state actors, domestic politics, exceptionalism, legal history, nation branding, gender, race, political economy, memory, psychology, emotions, and the senses.\"--Provided by publisher.
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\I React Intensely to Everything\: Russia and the Frustrated Emotions of George F. Kennan, 1933–1958
Drawing on the emerging \"emotional turn\" in history, Costigliola presents a fresh view of the origins and development of the Cold War by showing how emotion can be used to decode policy recommendations that have traditionally been explained in almost wholly rational terms. While remaining cognizant of the integral nature of thinking, he seeks to trace the particular pathways by which George F. Kennan's feelings permeated his thoughts and actions relating to Russia and the United States. Scholars in a variety of fields can use a similar approach to delve deeper into the thoughts, motivations, and behavior of historical actors.
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Roosevelt/Kennan and Stalin
It has been easy for Americans to grow angry, exasperated, or disgusted with the Russians, regardless of whether Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, or Putin was in charge. Think of all the appalling outrages, from the Katyn forest massacre and the mass rapes by Red Army soldiers during World War II, to the repression of Eastern Europe in the Cold War, to the more recent aggression against Georgia and Ukraine. Not to mention the Berlin and Cuban crises of a half-century ago and the egregious interference in the U.S. election last year. Even during the Grand Alliance, the Russians aggravated American sensibilities...
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Pamela Churchill, Wartime London, and the Making of the Special Relationship. Pamela Churchill, Wartime London, and the Making of the Special Relationship
This article makes a beginning at teasing out the implications for foreign relations history of personal/political relationships entailing intimacy, sexuality, trust, and secrecy. Those four elements--intimacy, sexuality, trust, and secrecy--intersect and foster each other in various ways that change over time, across cultures, and according to individual circumstances. Engaging in intimacy and sexuality with a partner generally lowers a person's inhibitions and renders them more likely to trust and share secrets with that partner. Sharing secrets can be sexy because it presumes intimacy. Intimacy and sexuality generally entail making oneself vulnerable and transparent, a situation precursory to trust. As political scientists maintain, trust--that is, a belief that the other side is willing to reciprocate cooperation--is key to developing cooperation and alliances. Seduction, whether practiced by Pamela Churchill, FDR, or other masters, remains at the heart of diplomacy. So do personal networks, the informal connections that diplomats cultivate for information and influence.
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Roosevelt's Lost Alliances
In the spring of 1945, as the Allied victory in Europe was approaching, the shape of the postwar world hinged on the personal politics and flawed personalities of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin. Roosevelt's Lost Alliances captures this moment and shows how FDR crafted a winning coalition by overcoming the different habits, upbringings, sympathies, and past experiences of the three leaders. In particular, Roosevelt trained his famous charm on Stalin, lavishing respect on him, salving his insecurities, and rendering him more amenable to compromise on some matters.
Yet, even as he pursued a lasting peace, FDR was alienating his own intimate circle of advisers and becoming dangerously isolated. After his death, postwar cooperation depended on Harry Truman, who, with very different sensibilities, heeded the embittered Soviet experts his predecessor had kept distant. A Grand Alliance was painstakingly built and carelessly lost. The Cold War was by no means inevitable.
This landmark study brings to light key overlooked documents, such as the Yalta diary of Roosevelt's daughter Anna; the intimate letters of Roosevelt's de facto chief of staff, Missy LeHand; and the wiretap transcripts of estranged adviser Harry Hopkins. With a gripping narrative and subtle analysis, Roosevelt's Lost Alliances lays out a new approach to foreign relations history. Frank Costigliola highlights the interplay between national political interests and more contingent factors, such as the personalities of leaders and the culturally conditioned emotions forming their perceptions and driving their actions. Foreign relations flowed from personal politics--a lesson pertinent to historians, diplomats, and citizens alike.
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