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by Michael Kimmage


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This definitive portrait of American diplomacy reveals how the concept of the West drove twentieth-century foreign policy, how it fell from favor, and why it is worth saving.
Throughout the twentieth century, many Americans saw themselves as part of Western civilization, and Western ideals of liberty and self-government guided American diplomacy. But today, other ideas fill this role: on one side, a technocratic liberal international order, and on the other, the illiberal nationalism of America First.
In The Abandonment of the West, historian Michael Kimmage shows how the West became the dominant idea in US foreign policy in the first half of the twentieth century -- and how that consensus has unraveled. We must revive the West, he argues, to counter authoritarian challenges from Russia and China. This is an urgent portrait of modern America's complicated origins, its emergence as a superpower, and the crossroads at which it now stands.

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  • Title The Abandonment of the West: The History of an Idea in American Foreign Policy
  • Author Michael Kimmage
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books
  • Date 2020-04-21
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780465055906 / 0465055907
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.5 x 6.2 x 1.3 in (24.13 x 15.75 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Foreign relations - 20th, Civilization, Western
  • Dewey Decimal Code 327.730

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  • Library Journal, 02/14/2020, Page 1
  • Publishers Weekly, 02/10/2020, Page 0

About the author

Michael Kimmage is a professor of history at the Catholic University of America, specializing in the history of the United States, Europe, and Russia. A member of the secretary's policy planning staff at the US Department of State from 2014 to 2016 and the author of two books, he lives with his wife and two daughters in Washington, DC.
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