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Global Inequality and American Foreign Policy in the 1970s
In Global Inequality and American
Foreign Policy in the 1970s , Michael
Franczak demonstrates how Third World solidarity around the New
International Economic Order (NIEO) forced US presidents from
Richard Nixon to Ronald Reagan to consolidate American hegemony
over an international economic order under attack abroad and
lacking support at home. The goal of the nations that
supported NIEO was to negotiate a redistribution of money and power
from the global North to the global South. Their weapon was control
over the major commodities-in particular oil-that undergirded the
prosperity of the United States and Europe after World War II.
Using newly available archival sources, as well as interviews
with key administration officials, Franczak reveals how the NIEO
and \"North-South dialogue\" negotiations brought global inequality
to the forefront of US national security. The challenges posed by
NIEO became an inflection point for some of the greatest economic,
political, and moral crises of 1970s America, including the end of
golden age liberalism and the return of the market, the splintering
of the Democratic Party and the building of the Reagan coalition,
and the rise of human rights in US foreign policy in the wake of
the Vietnam War. The policy debates and decisions toward the NIEO
were pivotal moments in the histories of three ideological
trends-neoliberalism, neoconservatism, and human rights-that formed
the core of America's post-Cold War foreign policy.
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The anticolonial front : the African American freedom struggle and global decolonisation, 1945-1960
This is a transnational history of the activist and intellectual network that connected the Black freedom struggle in the United States to liberation movements across the globe in the aftermath of World War II. John Munro charts the emergence of an anticolonial front within the postwar Black liberation movement comprising organisations such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Council on African Affairs and the American Society for African Culture and leading figures such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Claudia Jones, Alphaeus Hunton, George Padmore, Richard Wright, Esther Cooper Jackson, Jack O'Dell and C. L. R. James. Drawing on a diverse array of personal papers, organisational records, novels, newspapers and scholarly literatures, the book follows the fortunes of this political formation, recasting the Cold War in light of decolonisation and racial capitalism and the postwar history of the United States in light of global developments.
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Empire of Pictures : Global Media and the 1960s Remaking of American Foreign Policy
\"In Cold War historiography, the 1960s are often described as a decade of mounting diplomatic tensions and international social unrest. At the same time, they were a period of global media revolution: communication satellites compressed time and space, television spread around the world, and images circulated through print media in expanding ways. Examining how U.S. policymakers exploited these changes, this book offers groundbreaking international research which shows that U.S. power came to depend more and more not on military superiority or economic strength alone, but also on America's ability to create appealing pictures that assured recognition of its global leadership\"--Provided by publisher.
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Music in America's Cold War diplomacy
\"During the Cold War, thousands of musicians from the United States traveled the world under the sponsorship of the U.S. State Department's Cultural Presentations program. Using archival documents and newly collected oral histories, this study illuminates the reception of these musical events, for the practice of musical diplomacy on the ground sometimes differed substantially from what the department's planners envisioned. Performances of music in many styles--classical, rock 'n' roll, folk, blues, and jazz--were meant to compete with traveling Soviet and Chinese artists, enhancing the reputation of American culture. These concerts offered large audiences evidence of America's improving race relations, excellent musicianship, and generosity toward other peoples. Most important, these performances also built meaningful connections with people in other lands. Through personal contacts and the media, musical diplomacy created subtle musical, social, and political relationships on a global scale. Although these tours were sometimes conceived as propaganda ventures, their most important function was the building of imagined and real relationships, which constitute the essence of soft power\"--Provided by publisher.
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Asia Pacific in the Age of Globalization
\"Asia Pacific in the Age of Globalization examines United States-East Asian relations in the framework of global history, incorporating fresh insights that have been offered by scholars on such topics as globalization, human rights, historical memory, and trans-cultural relations. It brings the history of trans-Pacific relations up to date, both chronologically and conceptually. As the wider Pacific is destined to play an increasingly crucial role in the world's strategic, political, economic, and cultural affairs, this volume will be of invaluable help to readers seeking to understand such a development in a global historical framework\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The world reimagined : Americans and human rights in the twentieth century
\"For readers who want to understand why human rights has become the moral language of our time. It explores the making of a twentieth century global human rights imagination and its American vernaculars in times of war, decolonization and globalization during the transformative decades of the 1940s and 1970s\"--Provided by publisher.
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