This edited volume examines the impact of the “international” and "transnational” turns on contemporary historiography, rethinking whether historians have gone too far in de-centering the United States from their studies of U.S. foreign relations. In brief, since the late-1990s much of the scholarship on U.S .foreign affairs has sought to situate the United States as a “nation among nations,” implicitly (and sometimes explicitly) minimizing the global influence of the United States as a hegemonic superpower. This volume provides an alternative to this scholarly framework by re-centering the United States in accounts of U.S. foreign policy. It focuses on how the United States created the contemporary world system, shaped the lives of subaltern actors, and infringed upon the sovereignty of many nations, especially in the Global South. By bringing the United States “back in” to global history through a range of thematic perspectives, this volume will have a lasting impact on historical scholarship and will serve as an ideal teaching tool for both undergraduates and graduate students. Finally, the volume has contemporary salience. Donald Trump’s “American First” approach to U.S. foreign relations has highlighted the centrality of the United States to global affairs.weiterlesen