Hard Line
The Republican Party and U.S. Foreign Policy since World War II
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7307967 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew L Johns (Brigham Young University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 98 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 597-598 |
| Publication date | 2011-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jar248 |
| OpenAlex | W2330514326 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
To understand fully the formulation and implementation of U.S. foreign policy since 1945, one must consider a variety of causal factors. Ideology, structural forces, personalities, economics, and geostrategic concerns have all played a role in shaping the American engagement with the rest of the world. While scholars for decades have written extensively on many of these forces, the influence of domestic political considerations has recently garnered an increasingly significant and detailed level of attention from historians such as Fredrik Logevall, Kenneth Osgood, and Julian Zelizer. Colin Dueck’s Hard Line continues this notable historiographical evolution. In an explicit attempt to place the foreign policy of George W. Bush into historical context, Dueck presents a detailed analysis of the foreign policies of Republican presidents and pivotal figures such as Robert Taft and Barry Goldwater, whose thinking shaped the party’s approach to international relations after 1945. Dueck argues that the one overarching constant in conservative and Republican foreign policy has been hard-line nationalism. More specifically, he identifies a commitment to strong national defense, a comfort with the use of force, a determination to maintain a free hand internationally, and a tendency to be “relatively unyielding” toward U.S. adversaries as the hallmarks of that hawkish policy (pp. 2–3, 291
Context (archaeology · Diplomatic history · Foreign policy · Historiography · Ideology · International relations · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.71 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |