Throughout the twentieth century, the U.S. government willingly deployed power, hard and soft, to protect American investments all around the globe. Why did the United States get into the business of defending its citizens' property rights abroad? The Empire Trap looks at how modern U.S....

Thomas M. Larkin examines the Hong Kong-based Augustine Heard & Company, the most prominent American trading firm in treaty-port China, to explore the ways American elites at once made and were made by British colonial society

The education of Walt Whitman Rostow, 1916-1949 -- The making of an anticommunist zealot, 1950-1960 -- Rattling sabers, 1961 -- A distant voice, 1962-1963 -- The Rostow thesis, 1964-1965 -- The prophet returns, 1966 -- Postponing the inevitable, 1967 -- A world crashes down, 1968 -- Epilogue,...

"Proposes an analytical foundation for national security that challenges long-held assumptions or outdated suppositions about foreign affairs. Presents case studies of American foreign policy toward developing countries, efforts at state building, and nations growing in importance. Concludes...

Preface -- U.S. trade and investment relationship with sub-Saharan Africa: the African Growth and Opportunity Act / Vivian C. Jones -- Africa command: U.S. strategic interests and the role of the U.S. military in Africa / Lauren Ploch -- South Africa: current issues and U.S. relations / Lauren...

"The mistakes the U.S. has made in Latin America-and the high price it will pay for them Washington has long told Latin American countries how to run their economies: bring in multinationals, eliminate the social safety net, keep government debt low, court U.S. politicians, and sign free trade...

From the former Financial Times Beijing bureau chief, a balanced and far-seeing analysis of the emerging competition between China and the United States that will dominate twenty-first-century world affairs--an inside account of Beijing's quest for influence and an explanation of how America can...

Rewriting the epic of America / Ira Katznelson -- International engagement and American democracy: a comparative perspective / Aristide R. Zolberg -- International commitments and American political institutions in the nineteenth century / Robert O. Keohane -- Flexible capacity: the military and...