Diplomacy and Capitalism
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Christopher R.W. Dietrich
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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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CONTENTS
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Introduction. On Value and Values: Power, Progress, and Inequality in the American Century
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1. Investment and Invasion: The Clash Between Capitalism and State Sovereignty in Latin America, 1903–1936
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2. Gangster for Capitalism: Smedley Butler Abroad in the Age of Empire
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3. From Nashville to Port-au- Prince: Giles A. Hubert and the Agrarian New Deal in Postoccupation Haiti
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4. Weapons of the Strong: The Multinational Firm, Infrastructure, and the Neoliberal Legacies of the New Deal
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5. Rivers of Money: American Expert Influence on Pakistan and the Indus’ Water Economy
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6. Productivity as a Way of Life: USIS Propaganda Films in Cold War Italy
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7. Selling Cooperative Capitalism Abroad: The U.S. Cooperative Movement and International Development During the Cold War
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8. Building a Capitalist Consciousness: Japan and Visions of Capitalist Asia
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9. Cash for Gold: The Role of Private Finance in Shaping Decolonization in South and Central Africa, 1960–1974
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10. Courting American Capital: Public Relations and the Selling of Ivorian Capitalism in the United States, 1960–1980
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11. Nuclear Reaganomics: Corporate Lobbying After Three Mile Island, 1979–1985
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Notes
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List of Contributors
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Index
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Acknowledgments
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