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Mixed Messages
American Politics and International Organization 1919-1999
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2010
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At the turn of the century, the United States is on the verge of losing its vote in the General Assembly for non-payment of its arrears. There are eerie parallels between the domestic debate over the United Nations in 1999 and the struggles over the League of Nations in 1919. Why, many ask, are Americans the first to create international organizations and the first to abandon them? What is it about the American political culture that breeds both the most ardent supporters and the most vocal detractors of international organization? And why can't they find any common ground? In seeking to uncover the roots of American ambivalence toward international organization, this political history presents the first major analysis of U.S. attitudes toward both the United Nations and the League of Nations. It traces eight themes that have resurfaced again and again in congressional and public debates over the course of this century: exceptionalism, sovereignty, nativism and racism, unilateralism, security, commitments, reform, and burden-sharing. It assesses recent domestic political trends and calls for the development of two interactive political compacts--one domestic and one international--to place U.S.-UN relations on a new footing. A Century Foundation Book
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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-8157-5308-7
ISBN-Online
978-0-8157-9110-2
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
374
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Foreword No access
Preface No access
List of Acronyms No access
1 The Price of Uncertainty and Division No access Pages 1 - 14
The Burden of Exceptionalism No access
The Indispensable United States No access
The Universal United Nations No access
Are Americans Out of Step with the Rest of the World? No access
Government: Big or Small, Near or Far No access
Global Governance: Promise or Threat? No access
A Global Tax Man? No access
Nationalism and Global Institutions No access
Inhibiting U.S. Freedom of Action or Multiplying Its Reach? No access
Evolving Notions of Sovereignty No access
Those Wily Europeans No access
Communists at Turtle Bay No access
Race, Class, and Their Legacies No access
An Unfriendly Place? No access
Beijing In, Taipei Out No access
Rock Bottom? The Zionism-Racism Fiasco No access
A League of Democracies? No access
Global Programs, Domestic Agendas: Acting Globally and Thinking Locally No access
Permanent Opposition? No access
Too Weak or Too Strong? No access
Peace through War? No access
The Veto, National Security, and the Use of Force No access
Uncertain Interests, Open-Ended Commitments No access
The President, Congress, and War Powers No access
Who's in Control? The Question of Foreign Command of U.S. Forces No access
Who Owes Whom? Paying for Peacekeeping Support Costs No access
Unfinished Business in Planning the League and the UN No access
Penny Pinchers and Big Spenders: An Early Frost No access
Spinning Wheels: Barriers to Reform No access
Muddling Through: Reform as a Way of Life No access
The Odd Couple: Congress and UN Reform No access
Burden Sharing and Legal Obligations No access
Meeting the Immediate Crisis: UN Bonds No access
Paradise Lost: The Article 19 Crisis No access
Legal Relativity and the Withholding Habit No access
The Withholding Debate No access
Layers of Mistrust No access
Debate Postponed, Issues Unresolved No access
Broad Measures of Support No access
Demographics: Who Are the Believers, Skeptics, and Opponents? No access
Reaching Congress: A Mission Impossible? No access
No Shortcuts or Easy Solutions No access
Toward a New Domestic Compact No access
Toward a New International Compact No access
The Office of the Secretary-General: Catalyst or Lightning Rod? No access
Civil Society: The Key to Opening or Locking the Door? No access
