ID	532
Title	The Open Door Era
Subtitle	United States Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century
Author	Michael Patrick Cullinane; Alex Goodall
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Publisher	Edinburgh University Press
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Publication Year	2017
ISBN#	1-47440-130-9
Pages	215
Language	en
Genre	History
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Summary	In a concise yet wide-ranging examination of its origins and development, readers will discover how the idea of the Open Door came to define the American Century.
Comments	<p>Examines the Open Door, the most influential U.S. foreign policy of the twentieth century</p> <p>In 1899, U.S. Secretary of State John Hay wrote six world powers calling for an 'Open Door' in China that would guarantee equal trading opportunities, curtail colonial annexation, and prevent conflict in the Far East. Within a year, the region had succumbed to renewed colonisation and war, but despite the apparent failure of Hay's diplomacy, the ideal of the Open Door emerged as the central component of U.S. foreign policy in the twentieth century. Just as visions of 'Manifest Destiny' shaped continental expansion in the nineteenth century, Woodrow Wilson used the Open Door to make the case for a world 'safe for democracy', Franklin Roosevelt developed it to inspire the fight against totalitarianism and imperialism, and Cold War containment policy envisioned international communism as the latest threat to a global system built upon peace, openness, and exchange. In a concise yet wide-ranging examination of its origins and development, readers will discover how the idea of the Open Door came to define the American Century.</p> <p>Key Features</p> <ul> <li>Uncovers the ideological wellspring of U.S. foreign policy in the twentieth century</li> <li>Presents debates over U.S. foreign policy, including the 'Wisconsin School' critique of the Open Door as a mechanism of informal empire</li> <li>Reveals both the consistency of U.S. foreign policy thinking and offers a deeper context to critical foreign policy decisions</li> <li>Contextulises the roots of contemporary U.S. policy</li></ul>
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