American Foreign Relations

AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS Lost in the Cold War

The Story of Jack Downey, America’s Longest-Held POW John T. Downey, Thomas J. Christensen, and Jack Lee Downey

Lost in the Cold War is the never-before-told story of Jack Downey’s decades as a prisoner of war in China and the efforts to bring him home. Downey’s lively and gripping memoir—written in secret late in life—interweaves horrors and deprivation with humor and the absurdities of captivity. He recounts his prison experiences, including fearful interrogations, pantomime communications with his guards, a 3,000-page overstuffed confession designed to confuse his captors, and posing for “show” photographs for propaganda purposes.

$27.95 / 22.00 cloth 978-0-231-19912-4 August 2022 328 pages

A NANCY BERNKOPF TUCKER AND WARREN I. COHEN BOOK ON AMERICA -EAST ASIAN RELATIONS

Fearing the Worst

How Korea Transformed the Cold War Samuel F. Wells Jr.

Fearing the Worst explains how the Korean War fundamentally changed postwar competition between the United States and the Soviet Union into a militarized confrontation that would last decades. Samuel F. Wells Jr. examines how military and political events interacted to escalate the conflict. Designs on Empire

America's Rise to Power in the Age of European Imperialism Andrew Priest

Andrew Priest offers a new understanding of the roots of American empire that foregrounds the longer history of American thinking on European imperialism. He traces the development of American thinking about European imperialism in the years after the Civil War, before the United States embarked on its own overseas colonial projects.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-19745-8 $145.00 / £120.00 cloth 978-0-231-19744-1 2021 304 pages 11 illus.

Isolating the Enemy

Diplomatic Strategy in China and the United States, 1953–1956 Tao Wang

Tao Wang offers a new account of Sino–American relations in the mid-1950s that situates the two great powers in their international context. He reveals how both the United States and China adopted a policy of attempting to isolate their adversary and explores how Chinese and American leaders perceived and reacted to each other’s strategies.

$45.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-0-231-19274-3 $35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-19817-2

2019 600 pages 20 illus. $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19816-5

WOODROW WILSON CENTER SERIES

2021 336 pages 9 illus.

AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations

New Histories Edited by Christopher McKnight Nichols and David Milne

How does the history of U.S. foreign relations appear differently when viewed through the lens of ideology? This book explores the ideological landscape of international relations from the colonial era to the present, offering a foundational statement on the intellectual history of U.S. foreign policy.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20181-0 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20180-3 August 2022 472 pages 9 illus.

Camp Century

The Untold Story of America's Secret Arctic Military Base Under the Greenland Ice Kristian H. Nielsen and Henry Nielsen

At the height of the Cold War, the United States Army secretly began work on a base embedded deep in the Greenland ice cap Camp Century. In this book, the first comprehensive account of the base, Kristian H. Nielsen and Henry Nielsen unravel the extraordinary history of this clandestine installation.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20177-3 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20176-6

2021 352 pages Engaging China

Fifty Years of SinoAmerican Relations Edited by Anne F. Thurston

This book brings together leading China specialists to offer a retrospective on relations between the United States and China over the last half-century and to consider what might be next. The contributors include academics, leaders of China-related nongovernmental organizations, and former diplomats and government officials.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20129-2 $145.00 / £120.00 cloth 978-0-231-20128-5 2021 472 pages 14 illus.

A NANCY BERNKOPF TUCKER AND WARREN I. COHEN BOOK ON AMERICAN–EAST ASIAN RELATIONS

Oil Powers

A History of the U.S.Saudi Alliance Victor McFarland

Victor McFarland challenges the view that the U.S.-Saudi alliance is the inevitable consequence of American energy demand and Saudi Arabia’s huge oil reserves. Oil Powers traces the growth of the alliance through a dense web of political, economic, and social connections that bolstered royal and executive power as well as the national-security state.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-19727-4 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19726-7 2020 376 pages 5 illus.