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Law and the shaping of American foreign policy :From the Gilded Age to the new era (Elihu Root, William Howard Taft, Philander Knox, Joseph Choate).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Law and the shaping of American foreign policy :
Reminder of title:	From the Gilded Age to the new era (Elihu Root, William Howard Taft, Philander Knox, Joseph Choate).
Author:	Zasloff, Jonathan Mark.
Description:	199 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Akira Iriye.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-04, Section: A, page: 1527.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-04A.
Subject:	History, United States.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3051334
ISBN:	0493660135

Law and the shaping of American foreign policy :From the Gilded Age to the new era (Elihu Root, William Howard Taft, Philander Knox, Joseph Choate).
Zasloff, Jonathan Mark.

Law and the shaping of American foreign policy :From the Gilded Age to the new era (Elihu Root, William Howard Taft, Philander Knox, Joseph Choate). [electronic resource] - 199 p.

Adviser: Akira Iriye.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2002.

The dissertation explores this question through investigating the role of legal ideology in the formation of US foreign relations during the first two decades of this century. During these decades, lawyers dominated the formation and execution of American foreign policy. It attempts to reconstruct the ideological world from which these foreign policymakers emerged, which it gleans from the source materials from the late 19<super>th</super> and early 20<super> th</super> century, including judicial opinions, treatises, appellate briefs, private correspondence, and published essays. I argue that classical legal ideology influenced US foreign policy by suggesting that international law and institutions could significantly increase global stability, and simultaneously by implying that traditional realpolitik based upon the balance of power was unnecessary and even damaging to world order.

ISBN: 0493660135Subjects--Topical Terms:

212533
History, United States.

Law and the shaping of American foreign policy :From the Gilded Age to the new era (Elihu Root, William Howard Taft, Philander Knox, Joseph Choate).
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520 # $a The dissertation then focuses on Elihu Root, the founder of the US foreign policy establishment and the nation's leading lawyer from 1890 to 1920, to show how these assumptions played out in practice. More than other contemporaries, Root thought through the assumptions and goals of both American foreign policy and American law during this period. It also gives considerable attention to prominent lawyer-diplomats such as William Howard Taft, Philander Knox, and Joseph Choate.
520 # $a This dissertation investigates the relationship between the prevailing legal culture of the late 19<super>th</super> and early 20<super>th</super> centuries, which I call “classical legal ideology”, and patterns of American foreign relations during the same period. More than five decades ago, George Kennan complained that “moralistic legalism” suffuses American foreign policy. Since then, commentators have routinely noted the influence of lawyers on US external policy; yet no one has identified how it affected the development of the United States into superpower status.
520 # $a Through this exploration, I hope to answer to some of the lingering mysteries of American policy during the period, viz., how fundamental clashes of interests could be seen as mere misunderstandings; how deep-seated international conflicts could be dismissed as petty political squabbling; how structural imbalances of power could be viewed as the basis of a stable international order.
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