8 March 2010
I have just published a new book! It is a documentary reader, with my introduction and document notes, designed to re-examine the ways we teach, write, and make foreign policy.
American Foreign Relations Since 1898: A Documentary Reader
Jeremi Suri (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-8447-2
Paperback 272 pages
April 2010, Wiley-Blackwell
This volume brings together more than 50 documents which examine foreign policy not only in terms of leaders and states, but also through social movements, cultures, ideas, and images, to provide comprehensive understanding of how Americans have interacted with the wider world since 1898.
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Draws together over 50 primary documents to give readers a first-hand account of the people and events that shaped the foreign policy of the United States
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Incorporates documents relating not only to leaders and states, but also to social movements, cultures, ideas, and images
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Highlights the diverse range of contributors to debates about American foreign policy, from presidents to protesters, students to singers
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Includes a comprehensive introduction to the subject and headnotes for each document written by the editor, as well as a bibliography for further study
For more information, see: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1405184477.html
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Americans are a nation-building people, and in Liberty’s Surest Guardian, Jeremi Suri looks to America’s history to see both what it has to offer to failed states around the world and what it should avoid.
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Jeremi Suri is the Mack Brown Distinguished Professor for Global Leadership, History, and Public Policy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of five books on contemporary politics and foreign policy. In September 2011 he will publish a new book on the past and future of nation-building: Liberty's Surest Guardian: American Nation-Building from the Founders to Obama. Professor Suri's research and teaching have received numerous prizes. In 2007 Smithsonian Magazine named him one of America's "Top Young Innovators" in the Arts and Sciences. His writings appear widely in blogs and print media. Professor Suri is also a frequent public lecturer and guest on radio and television programs.