Best laid plans : ideas, identity, and the origins of U.S. multilateralism / Stewart Patrick.

Author/creator Patrick, Stewart
Format Book
Publication InfoLanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2008.
Descriptionpages ; cm.
Subjects
International cooperation.
United States--Foreign relations. --Philosophy.
United States--Foreign relations. --1989-.

Contents From Washington to Wilson -- Planning the postwar world : from the Atlantic Charter to Dumbarton Oaks -- "A world of power, tempered by a little reason" : creating the United Nations -- "When goods move, soldiers don't" : opening the world economy -- Bretton woods and the british loan : the postwar monetary and trading system -- "An imperative principle of action" : self-determination -- A dream deferred : adapting multilateralism to containment -- A world economy postponed -- From collective security to collective defense : the origins of NATO -- Between anticolonialism and anti-communism : the search for a post-imperial order.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2008034214
ISBN9780742562981 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0742562980 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780742565869 (electronic)
ISBN0742565866 (electronic)