Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Fear, interest and honor
- 3 The spirit and its expression
- 4 The ancient world
- 5 Medieval Europe
- 6 From Sun King to Revolution
- 7 Imperialism and World War I
- 8 World War II
- 9 Hitler to Bush and beyond
- 10 General findings and conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
9 - Hitler to Bush and beyond
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Fear, interest and honor
- 3 The spirit and its expression
- 4 The ancient world
- 5 Medieval Europe
- 6 From Sun King to Revolution
- 7 Imperialism and World War I
- 8 World War II
- 9 Hitler to Bush and beyond
- 10 General findings and conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality – judiciously as you will, – we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.
Karl RoveAny system intended to bring liberty by open force to neighboring nations can only make liberty hated and prevent its triumph.
TalleyrandThe Cold War was the dominant international conflict of the post-World War II era. Other important developments, many of them related, include decolonization and the regional conflicts it spawned, the spread of democracy, the rising economic power of Pacific rim countries, the emergence of China as a great power and the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Cold War has been analyzed in terms of fear and appetite; realists and traditional historians emphasize the former and revisionists the latter. The study of foreign policy and international relations has once again ignored the spirit and the ways in which striving for recognition and standing helped to shape the Cold War and contributed to its demise.
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- A Cultural Theory of International Relations , pp. 439 - 504Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008