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Worldmaking

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by David Milne


  Obama, Barack, Sr.

  Obama, Michelle

  Obama Doctrine

  oil resources

  O’Neill, Thomas P. “Tip”

  One World (Willkie)

  Open Door at Home, The (Beard and Smith)

  Operation Desert Storm

  Operation Iraqi Freedom

  Operation Urgent Fury

  Oppenheimer, J. Robert

  O’Reilly, Leonara

  Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC)

  Orwell, George

  Oswald, Lee Harvey

  Ottoman Empire

  Oxford University

  Pacific Ocean

  Paine, Thomas

  Pakistan

  Palestine

  Palestinians

  Palin, Sarah

  Panama

  Panama Canal

  Panetta, Leon

  Paris Peace Conference (1919)

  Patton, George

  Paul, Rand

  “Peace Conference and the Moral Aspect of War, The” (Mahan)

  “Peace Without Victory” (Lippmann)

  Pearl Harbor attack (1941)

  Pepper, Claude

  perestroika

  Perle, Richard

  Pershing, John J.

  Petraeus, David

  Phantom Public, The (Lippmann)

  Philippines

  Pinochet, Augusto

  Pipes, Richard

  Plato

  Platt Amendment (1903)

  Podhoretz, Norman

  Poland

  Policy Counterterrorism Evaluation Group (PCTEG)

  “Policymaker and the Intellectual, The” (Kissinger)

  Popper, Karl

  Potsdam Conference (1945)

  Powell, Colin

  Powell, Frederick York

  Powell Doctrine

  Power, Samantha

  Preface to Politics, A (Lippmann)

  “Prerequisites: Notes on Problems of the United States in 1938, The” (Kennan)

  Present at the Creation (Acheson)

  “Present Situation: The War Aims and Peace Terms It Suggests, The” (Mezes, Miller, and Lippmann)

  preventive wars

  Price of Power, The (Hersh)

  Prince, The (Machiavelli)

  Princeton University

  progressivism

  Promise of American Life, The (Croly)

  Public Opinion (Lippmann)

  Pulitzer, Joseph

  Putin, Vladimir

  Quakers

  RAND Corp.

  Ranke, Leopold von

  Reader’s Digest

  Reagan, Ronald

  Reagan Doctrine

  Reflections on the Revolution in France (Burke)

  Remnick, David

  Reporter

  Republic, The (Plato)

  Republican Party

  Reston, James

  Reykjavik Summit (1986)

  Rhee, Syngman

  Ribbentrop, Joachim von

  Rice, Condoleezza

  Rice, Susan

  Rise of American Civilization, The (Beard and Beard)

  Rockefeller, Nelson

  Rogers, William

  Roman Empire

  Romania

  Roman Republic

  Romney, Mitt

  Roosevelt, Eleanor

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.: “arsenal of democracy” quote of; at Casablanca Conference (1943); death of; election of (1932); election of (1944); foreign policy of; Good Neighbor policy of; Great Depression policies of; as internationalist; Kennan’s views on; Lend-Lease Program of; Lippmann’s views on; military strategy of; New Deal policies of; public support of; Republican opposition to; Soviet policy of; at Tehran Conference (1943); at Yalta Conference (1945)

  Roosevelt, Theodore: foreign policy of; Mahan’s relationship with; as president; as Progressive Party (Bull Moose Party) candidate; in Spanish-American War; Wilson criticized by; World War I as viewed by

  Roosevelt Corollary

  Root, Elihu

  Ross, Dennis

  Rostow, Eugene

  Rostow, Walt

  Rouhani, Hassan

  Royal Navy

  Rubio, Marco

  Rumsfeld, Donald

  Rusk, Dean

  Russell, Bertrand

  Russia, Tsarist

  Russian Federation

  Russo-Japanese War

  Rwanda

  Sadat, Anwar

  Safeguard defense system

  Sakharov, Andrei

  Sanger, David

  Santayana, George

  Sarkozy, Nicolas

  Saudi Arabia

  Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.

  Schlesinger, Arthur M., Sr.

  Schwarzkopf, H. Norman

  Scowcroft, Brent

  Sedition Act (1918)

  Senate, U.S.

  Senate Foreign Relations Committee

  September 11th attacks (2001)

  Serbia

  Shakespeare, William

  Shaw, George Bernard

  Sherman, William Tecumseh

  Shiite Muslims

  Shinseki, Eric

  Shultz, George P.

  Slaughter, Anne-Marie

  slavery

  Slovakia

  Smith, Adam

  Smith, Gerard

  Smuts, Jan Christian

  socialism

  Social Science Research Council

  Solomon, Lewis

  Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

  Somalia

  Somoza, Anastasio

  Sonnenfeldt, Hal

  Sontag, Susan

  “Sources of Soviet Conduct, The” (Kennan)

  South America

  South Korea

  South Vietnam

  Soviet Union: atomic bomb tested by; Bolshevik Revolution in; collapse of; communist ideology of; containment of; dissidents in; expansionism of; Gorbachev’s reforms in; nuclear weapons of; sphere of influence of; U.S. relations with; in World War II

  Spain

  Spanish-American War

  Spanish Civil War

  Spengler, Oswald

  Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto, The (Rostow)

  Stalin, Joseph

  State Department, U.S.

  Steel, Ronald

  Stephanopoulos, George

  Stephanson, Anders

  Stevenson, Adlai

  Stimson, Henry

  Stowe, Harriet Beecher

  Strategic Air Command (SAC)

  strategic arms limitation talks (SALT)

  Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) (“Star Wars” program)

  Strauss, Leo

  subprime mortgage markets

  Sudetenland

  Suez Canal

  Sunni Muslims

  Supreme Court, U.S.

  Suri, Jeremi

  Syria

  Taft, William Howard

  Taiwan

  Taliban

  Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles-Maurice de

  taxation

  Taylor, Maxwell

  Tehran Conference (1943)

  Teller, Edward

  Tenet, George

  Thatcher, Margaret

  Third World

  Tho, Le Duc

  Thucydides

  Tiananmen Square massacre (1989)

  Time

  “Time, Technology, and the Creative Spirit in Political Science” (Beard)

  Times (London)

  “Tired Old Men, The” (Lippmann)

  “Today & Tomorrow” (“T&T”) (Lippmann)

  Tolstoy, Leo

  totalitarianism

  Toynbee, Arnold

  Trade Act (1974)

  Treasury Department, U.S.

  Treaty of Westphalia (1648)

  Trotsky, Leon

  Truman, Harry S.: atomic bomb decision of; hydrogen bomb supported by; Kennan’s views on; Korean War policy of; Lippmann’s views on; Nitze’s views on; at Potsdam Conference (1945)

  Truman Doctri
ne

  Tunisia

  Turkey

  Twenty-second Amendment

  U-boats

  Ukraine

  United Nations

  United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC)

  United Nations Security Council; Resolution 687 of; Resolution 1973 of

  United States: Anglo-Saxon culture of; anticommunism in; atomic bomb developed by; capitalist system of; defense spending of; democratic system of; economy of; European relations of; foreign aid of; foreign trade of; free speech in; gross domestic and gross national product (GDP and GNP) of; hydrogen bomb developed by; isolationism in; military preparedness movement in; missile defense systems of; national security of; neutrality of; nuclear weapons of; Soviet relations with; treaty obligations of; unemployment rate in; in World War I; in World War II

  United States Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS)

  U.S. embassy bombings (Kenya, Tanzania) (1998)

  U.S. Foreign Policy: Shield of the Republic (Lippmann)

  U.S. War Aims (Lippmann)

  Vance, Cyrus

  Vandenberg, Arthur

  Veblen, Thorstein

  Versailles, Treaty of

  Victoria, queen of Britain

  “Viet Nam Negotiations, The” (Kissinger)

  Vietnam War

  Vishnu

  Wałeşa, Lech

  Wallace, George

  Wallace, Henry

  Wallas, Graham

  Wall Street Journal

  War Department, U.S.

  War of 1812

  war on terror

  Warsaw Pact countries

  Washington, George

  Washington Post

  Watergate scandal

  weapons of mass destruction (WMDs)

  Welles, Sumner

  Wells, H. G.

  Westad, Odd Arne

  Westmoreland, William

  West Pakistan

  White, William A.

  White House Years, The (Kissinger)

  WikiLeaks

  Wilhelm II, emperor of Germany

  Willkie, Wendell

  Wilson, Ellen Axson

  Wilson, Joseph

  Wilson, Woodrow; as academic and intellectual; congressional relations of; declaration of war by; as Democratic leader; diplomacy of; election of (1912); election of (1916); foreign policy of; Fourteen Points of; idealism of; internationalism of; Kennan’s views on; Kissinger’s views on; League of Nations proposed by; Mexican policy of; military strategy of; neutrality policy of; at Paris Peace Conference (1919); peace proposals of; “peace without victory” speech of; as political scientist; popular support for; as Princeton University president; as progressive; Republican opposition to; “safe for democracy” quote of; speeches of; State of the Union addresses of; T. Roosevelt’s criticism of; wartime dissent suppressed by; Wolfowitz and policies of; World War I policies of

  Wilsonianism

  Wohlstetter, Albert

  Wolfowitz, Jacob

  Wolfowitz, Lillian Dundes

  Wolfowitz, Paul; as adviser; in Carter administration; CIA as viewed by; Cold War as viewed by; as conservative; in Ford administration; in G.H.W. Bush administration; Gulf War supported by; in G. W. Bush administration; ideology of; Iraq policies of; Iraq War supported by; Jewish background of; Kissinger compared with; Middle East policies of; Nitze compared with; in Nixon administration; Obama’s policies and; Persian Gulf as viewed by; as policy planning director (PPS); in Reagan administration; regime change supported by; Saddam Hussein as viewed by; State Department as viewed by; war on terror and; weapons of mass destruction as viewed by; Wilsonianism of

  “World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the Problems of Peace, 1812–1822, A” (Kissinger)

  World Trade Center bombing (1993)

  World War I

  World War II

  Xenophon

  Yale University

  Yalta Conference (1945)

  Yeltsin, Boris

  Yom Kippur War

  Yugoslavia

  Zakaria, Fareed

  Zakheim, Dov

  Zapata, Emiliano

  Zelikow, Philip D.

  Zero Dark Thirty

  Zhou Enlai

  Zhukov, Georgii

  Zimmermann, Arthur

  Zimmermann, Warren

  Zimmermann Telegram

  Zionism

  Zumwalt, Elmo, Jr.

  A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  David Milne is a senior lecturer in modern history at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of America’s Rasputin: Walt Rostow and the Vietnam War and a senior editor of the two-volume Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History. Milne has held visiting fellowships at Yale University, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and the American Philosophical Society. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times and The Nation in addition to academic journals. You can sign up for email updates here.

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  CONTENTS

  Title Page

  Copyright Notice

  Dedication

  Epigraph

  Introduction

  1. The Philosopher of Sea Power: Alfred Thayer Mahan

  2. Kant’s Best Hope: Woodrow Wilson

  3. Americans First: Charles Beard

  4. The Syndicated Oracle: Walter Lippmann

  5. The Artist: George Kennan

  6. The Scientist: Paul Nitze

  7. Metternich Redux: Henry Kissinger

  8. The Worldmaker: Paul Wolfowitz

  9. Barack Obama and the Pragmatic Renewal

  Conclusion

  Notes

  Bibliography

  Acknowledgments

  Index

  A Note About the Author

  Also by David Milne

  Copyright

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  Copyright © 2015 by David Milne

  All rights reserved

  First edition, 2015

  Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint an excerpt from Nixon in China, by John Adams/Alice Goodman, reprinted by permission of Boosey and Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd.

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Milne, David, 1976–

  Worldmaking: the art and science of American diplomacy / David Milne. — First edition.

  p. cm.

  Includes bibliographical references and index.

  ISBN 978-0-374-29256-0 (hardcover) — ISBN 978-0-374-71423-9 (e-book)

  1. United States—Foreign relations—1897–1901. 2. United States—Foreign relations—20th century. 3. United States—Foreign relations—21st century. 4. United States—Foreign relations—Philosophy. 5. Statesmen—United States. 6. Intellectuals—United States. I. Title.

  E744. M566 2015

  327.73—dc23

  2015003943

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