Americans and Everyone Else. The Origins and Meaning of US Foreign Policy (16+)

No matter how things turn out in the world, the United States of America remains one of the key players on the world stage. Their actions, whether someone likes it or not, cause a lively response from other countries of the world. Some want to adopt the US model, some want to do the opposite, some just want to take into account their experience. What is the "American model" if it has been causing such interest for more than a century? What factors of domestic and foreign policy led to the fact that America was formed exactly as it is? The famous historian and Americanist Ivan Kurilla examines how the key elements of the American model were formed - democracy, exceptionalism, messianism and much more, how expansionism replaced isolationism, how idealism and rationalism are combined. The author sees one of the main factors in the formation of the American model as the eternal search for and opposition to the Other - the English colonizers, the Indians, supporters of preserving slavery, the policies of Tsarist Russia and the USSR, and in recent years - the rise of China and the return of Russia to the international arena. We live in another era of change, and we can, without fear of being mistaken, say that the current generation of Russians will be present at the construction of a new world order (and some will even participate in it). It is too early to predict what role the United States of America, the most influential country of recent decades, will play in this new world, but it seems clear that the reorganization will be largely driven either by the United States itself or by the attempts of other countries to resist the American will. The book is supplemented with archival and contemporary photographs, lithographs, engravings and posters. By declaring their settlement "a city upon a hill," Puritan preachers placed their future society higher than the one they abandoned in the Old World. For those interested in international relations, the role of America in world politics and want to understand the true motives and reasons for decisions in US foreign policy. The Great (aka World War I) War created incentives for American intervention in world affairs and for the renewal of the entire complex of foreign policy thought. Relying on the traditional American idea of ​​themselves as a model for the rest of the world and attracting the advanced political science of the United States, President Woodrow Wilson proposed a radical plan for reorganizing the world.