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A new and unique framework for understanding the history of the foreign policy of the United States.The United States is now nearly 250 years old. It arose from humble beginnings, as a strip of mostly agrarian and sparsely populated English colonies on the northeastern edge of the New World, far removed from the centers of power in Europe. Today, it is the world's most powerful country, with itslargest economy and most powerful military. How did America achieve this status?In The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy, Michael Mandelbaum offers a new framework for understanding the evolution of the foreign policy of the United States. He divides that evolution into four distinct periods, with each defined by the consistent increase in American power relative to othercountries.
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Michael Mandelbaum is the Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. and is the director of the American Foreign Policy Program there. He has also held teaching posts at Harvard and Columbia Universities, and at the United States Naval Academy.
His most recent book, written with co-author Thomas L. Friedman, is THAT USED TO BE US: HOW AMERICA FELL BEHIND IN THE WORLD IT INVENTED AND HOW WE CAN COME BACK. Its publication date is September 5, 2011.
He serves on the board of advisors of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a Washington-based organization sponsoring research and public discussion on American policy toward the Middle East.
A graduate of Yale College, Professor Mandelbaum earned his Master's degree at King's College, Cambridge University and his doctorate at Harvard University.
Professor Mandelbaum is the author or co-author of numerous articles and of 13 books: That Used To Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back (2011) with co-author Thomas L. Friedman; The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era (2010) ; Democracy's Good Name: The Rise and Risks of the World's Most Popular Form of Government (2007) ; The Case For Goliath: How America Acts As The World's Government in the Twenty-first Century (2006) ; The Meaning of Sports: Why Americans Watch Baseball, Football and Basketball and What They See When They Do (2004) ; The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy and Free Markets in the Twenty-First Century (2002) ; The Dawn of Peace in Europe (1996) ; The Fate of Nations: The Search for National Security in the 19th and 20th Centuries (1988) ; The Global Rivals, (co-author, 1988) ; Reagan and Gorbachev (co-author, 1987) ; The Nuclear Future (1983) ; The Nuclear Revolution: International Politics Before and After Hiroshima (1981) ; and The Nuclear Question: The United States and Nuclear Weapons, 1946-1976 (1979) . He is also the editor of twelve books.
