Louis J. Halle

This volume contains some of Louis Halle's most memorable historical and political essays. Contents: On Push-Button War; The Berlin Wall; Mr. Spaak and the Doctrine of Collective Guilt; On a Certain Impatience with Latin America; The Davies Case; Goodness is Not Enough; The Making of Foreign Policy in a Democracy; The Evolution of World Politics; On Understanding Politics; Argentina and the Formulation of American Foreign Policy; Explaining Vietnam; Foreign Policy and the Democratic Process: The American Experience; The Concept of Sovereign Equality; R. W. Livingstone and the Nature of History; Herbert Butterfield: The Historian as Philosopher; De Gaulle and the Politics of Bismarck; The Conceptual Roots of War and Genocide; Lessons of the Nuclear Age; A Hopeful Future for Humankind; The World of George Kennan; The Identification of the Enemy; Does War Have a Future?

One of the few works to set forth a philosophy of history and international relations with implications for the formulation of foreign policy. The book also presents a conceptual framework for the understanding of international relations in their secular development.

One of the few works to set forth a philosophy of history and international relations with implications for the formulation of foreign policy. The book also presents a conceptual framework for the understanding of international relations in their secular development.

Based on original research into the source materials, this book presents a new and realistic interpretation of the first great turning point in the history of United States international relations-namely, its acquisition of the overseas empire of the Philippines.