Devices and Desires: On the Uses of Cold War History

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Notes

[1] Suri, Power and Protest .

[2] See also his The Elusive Balance .

[3] See de Grazia, Irresistible Empire . For a more sceptical view, see Marling, How American is Globalization?

[4] For this critique, see also Sir Lawrence Freedman's review of the book in Foreign Affairs (May/June 2006).

[5] I have been much influenced in this view by Michael Hunt, my mentor at UNC-Chapel Hill, whose 1987 Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press) is a milestone in the understanding of US foreign policy making. As often happens in the case of good dissertation advisers, Michael's views have influenced me more after I graduated than when I studied under his guidance.