U.S. foreign policy

U.S. Foreign Policy covers the foreign relations and diplomacy of the United States since 1775.

See also

• Diplomacy, U.S., Timeline

• 9-11 Attack
• Afghanistan War (1978-92)
• American Revolution, 1775-1783
• Berlin Wall, 1961-89
• Central Intelligence Agency
• Cold War, 1947-89
• Confederate States of America
• Containment
• Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
• Detente
• Diplomacy, U.S., Timeline
• Eisenhower Doctrine, 1957
• Embargo of 1807
• Fourteen Points, 1918
• Gulf War, 1990-91
• Iraq War, 2003+
• Isolationism
• Jay Treaty, 1794
• Korean War, 1950-53
• Lend Lease, 1941-45
• List of scholarly journals in international relations
• Louisiana Purchase, 1803
• Manifest Destiny
• Marshall Plan, 1848-51
• McNary-Haugen Bill, 1920s; (never passed)
• Mexican-American War, 1846-48
• Monroe Doctrine, 1823+
• NATO, 1949+
• NSC-68, 1950
• Quasi-War, 1798-1800
• Reagan Doctrine
• Rollback
• Roosevelt Corollary, 1904
• Spanish American War, 1898
• Tariff, U.S. history
• U.S. Civil War
• United States State Department
• Versailles Treaty, 1919
• Vietnam War, 1965-73
• War of 1812, 1812-15
  • War of 1812, Causes
• Wilsonianism, 1914+
• World War I, 1917-18
• World War II, 1941-45
• Zimmerman Telegram, 1917

See also leaders

• Dean Acheson
• Jane Addams
• John Adams
• John Quincy Adams
• Charles A. Beard
• James G. Blaine
• John C. Calhoun
• Jimmy Carter
• Henry Clay
• Jesse Helms
• Herbert Hoover
• Harry Hopkins
• Edward M. House
• Thomas Jefferson
• Lyndon B. Johnson
• John F. Kennedy
• George Kennan
• Henry Kissinger
• James Monroe
• Richard Nixon
• James K. Polk
• Ronald Reagan
• Eleanor Roosevelt
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Josiah Strong
• Harry S. Truman
• Daniel Webster
• Wendell Willkie
• Woodrow Wilson

Bibliography

• Bailey, Thomas A. Diplomatic History of the American People (1940), standard older textbook
• Beisner, Robert L. ed, American Foreign Relations since 1600: A Guide to the Literature (2003), 2 vol. 16,300 annotated entries evaluate every major book and scholarly article.
• Bemis, Samuel Flagg. A Diplomatic History of the United States (1952) old standard textbook
• Bemis, Samuel Flagg, and Grace Gardner Griffin. Guide to the Diplomatic History of the United States 1775-1921 (1935) bibliographies
• Brune, Lester H. Chronological History of U.S. Foreign Relations (2003), 1400 pages
• Burns, Richard Dean, ed. Guide to American Foreign Relations since 1700 (1983) highly detailed annotated bibliography
• DeConde, Alexander, Richard Dean Burns, Fredrik Logevall, and Louise B. Ketz, eds. Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy 3 vol (2001), 2200 pages; 120 long articles by specialists.
• DeConde, Alexander. A History of American Foreign Policy (1963) online edition
• Findling, John E. ed. Dictionary of American Diplomatic History 2nd ed. 1989. 700pp; 1200 short articles.
• Flanders, Stephen A, and Carl N. Flanders. Dictionary of American Foreign Affairs (1993) 835 pp, short articles
• Hogan, Michael J. ed. Paths to Power: The Historiography of American Foreign Relations to 1941 (2000) essays on main topics
• Hogan, Michael J. and Thomas G. Paterson, eds. Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations (1991) essays on historiography
• Lafeber, Walter. The American Age: United States Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad, 1750 to Present (2nd ed 1994) textbook; 884pp online edition
• Paterson, Thomas G. et al. American Foreign Relations (4th ed. 1995), recent textbook

Online resources

• Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS), 1861-1960, 372 volumes complete text. This series is the official documentary historical record of U.S. foreign policy decisions