Diffidence And Ambition The Intellectual Sources Of U.s. Foreign Policy

Introduction -- The American Theorem -- The International Context and the Analytical Categories -- Interdependence and National Security: The Two Pillars of U.S. Foreign Policy -- The Case Study: The Council on Foreign Relations -- Coexistence with Nazi Europe: One Scenario -- The Grand Area and Self-sufficiency: Another Scenario -- Anglo-American Relations and the Atlantic System -- The Expansion of the Western Hemisphere -- Defending the Continent -- Greenland and Iceland -- The War and Peace Studies and the Concept of National Security -- Conclusion: The Pearl and the Oyster