This insightful collection of essays details the political life of one of the most prominent and gifted American statesmen of the twentieth century. From his early training in international law to his five terms in the US Senate, J. William Fulbright (1905–1995) had a profound influence on US foreign policy, and his vision for mutual understanding shaped the extraordinary exchange program bearing his name.
As a senator for Arkansas for thirty years and the longest serving chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Fulbright was one of the most influential figures of United States politics. His criticism of US involvement in Vietnam exemplified his belief in the effective management of international norms by international organizations—including the United Nations, which was the subject of his first bill in Congress. Yet alongside his commitments to liberal internationalism and multilateral governance, Fulbright was a southern politician who embraced the interests of the region’s conservative white population. This juxtaposition of biased and broad-minded objectives shows a divide at the center of Fulbright’s vision, which still has consequences for America’s global policies today.
This multidimensional volume covers Fulbright’s development as a national and global voice on foreign relations, as he wrestled with the political controversies of the US South during the civil rights movement, worked with and challenged executive power, and shaped the Fulbright program for educational exchange.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: The Legacy of J. William Fulbright: Policy, Power, and Ideology
Fulbright Internationalism: A Retrospective
The Power of the One-Party South in National Politics: Segregation in the Career of J. William Fulbright
J. William Fulbright on the US Senate Foregin Relations Committee: Foreign Policy Intellectual, Public Educator, Restrainer of Presidental Power
‚A thorn in the flesh‘: Fulbright, Latin America, and the Enduring Cold War
J. William Fulbright and the Retreat of American Power: Anglo-Australian Views of Fulbright and US Neo-Isolationism
The Price of Imperial Thinking: J. William Fulbright as Critic of US Empire
The Meaning of Educational Exchange: The Nationalist Exceptionalism of Fulbright’s Liberal Internationalism
The Making of the Fulbright Program, 1946-1961: Architecture, Philosophy, and Narrative
Fulbright Women in the Global Intellectual Elite
Tactful Visitor, Scientific Observer, or 100 Percent Patriot? Ambassadorship in the Australia-US Fulbright Program
The Limits of Liberal Internationalism: The Fulbright Program in Africa
Nice to meet you, President Tito: Senator Fulbright and the Yugoslav Lesson for Vietnam
The Fulbright Program in China
Über den Autor
David J. Snyder is clinical associate professor of history, global studies, and US foreign relations at the University of South Carolina. His scholarship has appeared in leading journals such as Diplomatic History and the Journal of Cold War Studies, as well as numerous anthologies. He is coeditor of Rebellion in Black and White: Southern Student Activism in the 1960s and Reasserting America in the 1970s: US Public Diplomacy and the Rebuilding of America’s Image Abroad.Ebooks vom selben Autor / Herausgeber
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