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John Foster Dulles and the Diplomacy of the Cold War / ed. by Richard H. Immerman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1990Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691226835
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973.921092 20
LOC classification:
  • E748.D868
  • E748.D868 .J646 1990
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Key to Primary Sources and Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 John Foster Dulles and the Predicaments of Power -- CHAPTER 2 The Unexpected John Foster Dulles: Nuclear Weapons, Communism, and the Russians -- CHAPTER 3 John Foster Dulles, the European Defense Community, and the German Question -- CHAPTER 4 Konrad Adenauer, John Foster Dulles, and West German- American Relations -- CHAPTER 5 Dulles, Suez, and the British -- CHAPTER 6 Dulles, Latin America, and Cold War Anticommunism -- CHAPTER 7 John Foster Dulles and the Peace Settlement with Japan -- CHAPTER 8 "A Good Stout Effort": John Foster Dulles and the Indochina Crisis, 1954-1955 -- CHAPTER 9 John Foster Dulles and the Taiwan Roots of the "Two Chinas" Policy -- CONCLUSION -- A Note on the Contributors -- Index
Summary: As Dwight D. Eisenhower's Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles came to personify the shortcomings of American foreign policy. This collection of essays, representing the first archivally based reassessment of Dulles's diplomacy, examines his role during one of the most critical periods of modern history. Rejecting familiar Cold War stereotypes, this volume reveals the hidden complexities in Dulles's conduct of foreign policy and in his own personality.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Key to Primary Sources and Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 John Foster Dulles and the Predicaments of Power -- CHAPTER 2 The Unexpected John Foster Dulles: Nuclear Weapons, Communism, and the Russians -- CHAPTER 3 John Foster Dulles, the European Defense Community, and the German Question -- CHAPTER 4 Konrad Adenauer, John Foster Dulles, and West German- American Relations -- CHAPTER 5 Dulles, Suez, and the British -- CHAPTER 6 Dulles, Latin America, and Cold War Anticommunism -- CHAPTER 7 John Foster Dulles and the Peace Settlement with Japan -- CHAPTER 8 "A Good Stout Effort": John Foster Dulles and the Indochina Crisis, 1954-1955 -- CHAPTER 9 John Foster Dulles and the Taiwan Roots of the "Two Chinas" Policy -- CONCLUSION -- A Note on the Contributors -- Index

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As Dwight D. Eisenhower's Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles came to personify the shortcomings of American foreign policy. This collection of essays, representing the first archivally based reassessment of Dulles's diplomacy, examines his role during one of the most critical periods of modern history. Rejecting familiar Cold War stereotypes, this volume reveals the hidden complexities in Dulles's conduct of foreign policy and in his own personality.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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