Diplomacy and Capitalism: The Political Economy of U.S. Foreign Relations

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Diplomacy and Capitalism

The Political Economy of U.S. Foreign Relations

Edited by: Christopher R.W. Dietrich

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2022

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At the same time as modern capitalism became an engine of progress and a source of inequality, the United States rose to global power. Hence diplomacy and the forces of capitalism have continually evolved together and shaped each other at different levels of international, national, and local transformations. Diplomacy and Capitalism focuses on the crucial questions of wealth and power in the United States and the world in the twentieth century. Through a series of wide-ranging case studies on the history of international political economy and its array of state and non-state actors, the volume's authors analyze how material interests and foreign relations shaped each other. How did the rising and then disproportionate power of the United States and the actions of corporations, creditors, diplomats, and soldiers shape the twentieth-century world? How did officials in the United States and other nations understand the relationship between foreign investment and the state? How did people outside of the United States respond to and shape American diplomacy and political-economic policy? In detailed discussions of the exchanges and entanglements of capitalism and diplomacy, the authors answer these crucial questions. In doing so, they excavate how different combinations of material interest, geopolitical rivalry, and ideology helped create the world we live in today. The book thus analyzes competing and shared visions of international capitalism and U.S. diplomatic influence in chapters that bring the book's readers from the dawn of the twentieth century to its end, from Theodore Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan.

Contributors: Abou Bamba, Giulia Crisanti, Christopher R. W. Dietrich, Max Paul Friedman, Joseph Fronczak, Alec Hickmott, Jennifer M. Miller, Alanna O'Malley, Nicole Sackley, Jayita Sarkar, Erum Sattar, Jason Scott Smith.

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Christopher R. W. Dietrich is Associate Professor of History at Fordham University.

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"African American economists in Haiti, U.S. cooperative businessmen in India, and corporate productivity boosters in Japan—Diplomacy and Capitalism follows all sorts of Americans all over the world. Just as important, it studies the foreigners who worked to tame U.S. power and bend U.S. capital to their own needs. This teachable volume enriches our understanding of U.S. empire, as well as the conflicts endemic to U.S. capitalism in the twentieth century."

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Introduction. On Value and Values: Power, Progress, and Inequality in the American Century Christopher R. W. Dietrich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
1. Investment and Invasion: The Clash Between Capitalism and State Sovereignty in Latin America, 1903–1936 Max Paul Friedman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	15
2. Gangster for Capitalism: Smedley Butler Abroad in the Age of Empire Joseph Fronczak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	31
3. From Nashville to Port-au- Prince: Giles A. Hubert and the Agrarian New Deal in Postoccupation Haiti Alec Fazackerley Hickmott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	50
4. Weapons of the Strong: The Multinational Firm, Infrastructure, and the Neoliberal Legacies of the New Deal Jason Scott Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	71
5. Rivers of Money: American Expert Influence on Pakistan and the Indus’ Water Economy Erum Khalid Sattar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	85
6. Productivity as a Way of Life: USIS Propaganda Films in Cold War Italy Giulia Crisanti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	116
7. Selling Cooperative Capitalism Abroad: The U.S. Cooperative Movement and International Development During the Cold War Nicole Sackley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	133
8. Building a Capitalist Consciousness: Japan and Visions of Capitalist Asia Jennifer M. Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	154
9. Cash for Gold: The Role of Private Finance in Shaping Decolonization in South and Central Africa, 1960–1974 Alanna O’Malley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	179
10. Courting American Capital: Public Relations and the Selling of Ivorian Capitalism in the United States, 1960–1980 Abou B. Bamba Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	193
11. Nuclear Reaganomics: Corporate Lobbying After Three Mile Island, 1979–1985 Jayita Sarkar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	206
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	221
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	281
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	285
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	301

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May 23, 2022

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9780812298567

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336

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812298567

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