1 Introduction: How to be an American PART I: The Distinction: A Superior Nation is Born, 2. Challenging the conventional depiction of American identity, 3. Challenging the conventional depiction of U.S. foreign policy PART II The Mission: A Special Role Cast for the United States in the Play of World History, 4. The ‘turn-around’ theory and the many meanings of multilateral, 5. Early twentieth century internationalism: The triumph of Henry Cabot Lodge over Woodrow Wilson, 6. Turn-around? The triumph of hegemony over multilateralism PART III: The Resistance: American Exceptionalism and the Laws of History 7. From the post-Cold War order to the war on terror: American exceptionalism reaffirmed, 8. Conclusion: American exceptionalism today.
Hilde Eliassen Restad is Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Bjørknes College in Oslo, Norway. A Fulbright alumna, she has a Ph.D. in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia, and is frequently used as a commentator on U.S. politics in Norway.
Restad's book sheds new light by making a very substantial
contribution to the literature on American exceptionalism and its
role in shaping US foreign policy. Restad (Bjorknes College,
Norway) challenges the traditional assumptions of US foreign policy
experts that the US should either withdraw from the world like an
isolated but inspiring "city upon a hill" or actively lead the rest
of the world. --K. M. Zaarour, Shaw University CHOICE"Hilde
Eliassen Restad has accomplished a difficult and important task in
reviewing exceptionalism’s centrality in the American
self-understanding. … Restad, a Norwegian scholar and teacher
trained in the United States, uses her unique background to bring a
fresh perspective to exceptionalism and American foreign policy. As
an outsider who knows America well, she places the nation’s
experience in its wider international context and never takes for
granted the truth of conventional stories trapped by a priori
scholarly commitments to cycles, periods, breaks, and
"turnarounds." One of the book’s most commendable features is its
success in forcing readers to engage its argument. This is a book
to wrestle with, a book far from bland theorizing." -- Richard
Gamble, Professor of History, Anna Margaret Ross Alexander Chair in
History and Political Science at Hillsdale College"In American
exceptionalism, Hilde Restad provides a tightly argued and
provocative overview of America’s sense of self. … Hilde Restad is,
if anything, bold to seek an ideational study of exceptionalism
amid the mine-strewn landscape of the ongoing American culture
wars." -- Asle Toje, Director of Research at the Nobel Institute,
writes in International Affairs
Restad's book sheds new light by making a very substantial
contribution to the literature on American exceptionalism and its
role in shaping US foreign policy. Restad (Bjorknes College,
Norway) challenges the traditional assumptions of US foreign policy
experts that the US should either withdraw from the world like an
isolated but inspiring "city upon a hill" or actively lead the rest
of the world. --K. M. Zaarour, Shaw University CHOICE
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