SR Books is proud to make available the revised and enlarged edition of the classic text Modern American Diplomacy, first published in 1986. The editors have thoroughly updated this important work to reflect the advances in scholarship. In addition, three entirely new chapters have been added: "Containment and American Foreign Policy, 1945-1963," by Mark H. Lytle, Bard College; "The Cold War in Asia," by Marc Gallicchio, Villanova University; and "Nuclear Weapons and U.S. Cold War Diplomacy," by Walter L. Hixson, University of Akron. Designed as a text for 20th-century U.S. diplomacy or international relations courses, the 13 essays in Modern American Diplomacy examine the successes and failures that led to America's global dominance. The contributors, all specialists in the topics about which they write, bring clarity and insight to the events that have conditioned Washington's policies. Issues covered include U.S. positions on the Middle East, Latin America, and Southeast Asia.

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Course of American Diplomacy Chapter 2 In Search of an Orderly World: U.S. Imperialism, 1898-1912 Chapter 3 Woodrow Wilson and U.S. Intervention in World War I Chapter 4 The United States and the Versailles Peace Settlement Chapter 5 American Diplomacy in the 1920s Chapter 6 The Diplomacy of the Depression Chapter 7 The United States Enters World War II Chapter 8 World War II and the Coming of the Cold War Chapter 9 Containment and American Foreign Policy, 1945-1963 Chapter 10 The Cold War in Asia Chapter 11 Nuclear Weapons and Cold War Diplomacy Chapter 12 The Vietnam War Chapter 13 Latin America in the Cold War and After Chapter 14 The Middle East, Oil, and the Third World Chapter 15 Afterword: Facing a New World Order

John M. Carroll is regents' professor of history at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. George C. Herring is alumni professor of history at the University of Kentucky.