From Knowledge to Power: Foreign Policy Elites and the Foundations of American Hegemony

• In Event: The New Hegemony in World Politics

Brief Overview

I posit that extant accounts of WWII as the critical juncture in America’s rise provide an inadequate account of the strategy by which a network of foreign policy elites sought to secure the nation’s political commitment to postwar internationalism.

Author

• Matthew Conklin, University of Chicago