Contents

pp vii-x

Preface

pp xi-xiv

The Authors

pp xv-xviii

Part One - The State of the Art

pp 1-2

1 - State of the Art: An Introduction

pp 3-19

2 - “Revising Postrevisionism,” Or, The Poverty of Theory in Diplomatic History

pp 20-62

3 - New Approaches, Old Interpretations, and Prospective Reconfigurations

pp 63-92

4 - The Long Crisis in U.S. Diplomatic History: Coming to Closure

pp 93-126

5 - Commentaries

pp 127-156

Part Two - The Historiography of American Foreign Relations since 1941

pp 157-158

6 - The Historiography of American Foreign Relations: An Introduction

pp 159-165

7 - A Half-Century of Conflict: Interpretations of U.S. World War II Diplomacy

pp 166-205

8 - The Decision to Use the Bomb: A Historiographical Update

pp 206-233

9 - Origins of the Cold War in Europe and the Near East: Recent Historiography and the National Security Imperative

pp 234-269

10 - Making Known the Unknown War: Policy Analysis of the Korean Conflict since the Early 1980s

pp 270-299

11 - Eisenhower Revisionism: The Scholarly Debate

pp 300-325

12 - John F. Kennedy as World Leader: A Perspective on the Literature

pp 326-357

13 - The Unending Debate: Historians and the Vietnam War

pp 358-394

14 - Complaints, Self-Justifications, and Analysis: The Historiography of American Foreign Relations since 1969

pp 395-423

15 - An Emerging Synthesis? U.S.–Latin American Relations since the Second World War

pp 424-461

16 - Gideon's Band: America and the Middle East since 1945

pp 462-500

17 - The Cold War in Asia: The Elusive Synthesis

pp 501-535

18 - The Power of Money: The Historiography of American Economic Diplomacy

pp 536-561

19 - Coming in from the Cold War: The Historiography of American Intelligence, 1945–1990

pp 562-598

Index

pp 599-619