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Article: The Transatlantic Foreign Policy Elite: Its Evolution in Generational Perspective

TitleThe Transatlantic Foreign Policy Elite: Its Evolution in Generational Perspective
Authors
KeywordsGenerations
American foreign policy elite
Establishment
Transatlanticism
Issue Date2009
PublisherEdinburgh University Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/journals/content.aspx?pageId=1&journalId=12157
Citation
Journal of Transatlantic Studies, 2009, v. 7 n. 2, p. 163-183 How to Cite?
AbstractThis article applies a generational perspective to approach the phenomenon of the development of an American foreign policy Establishment, an elite that was, from the late nineteenth century onward, committed to an expansive United States role, preferably in collaboration with the British empire. It argues that one can discern four generational groupings, stretching across a period of around a century: (a) the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century founders or forerunners, a group clustered around Theodore Roosevelt, who looked back to the Civil War as a formative experience; (b) those Americans already well into their careers, for whom World War I served as an epiphany, giving them new consciousness of the existence of Europe, and often converting them to a long-term belief in the importance of either Rooseveltian or Wilsonian internationalism; (c) those younger men whom one might term the ‘wise men’ generation, a group whose first formative experience was usually military experience in World War I, and who were also often much influenced by older men from the generation before them; and (d) the World War II generation, a less cohesive group of younger men whose formative experience was service in World War II, who witnessed the dissolution of the Establishment's authority and influence.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/60860
ISSN
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.174

 

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dc.contributor.authorRoberts, PMen_HK
dc.date.accessioned2010-05-31T04:20:26Z-
dc.date.available2010-05-31T04:20:26Z-
dc.date.issued2009en_HK
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Transatlantic Studies, 2009, v. 7 n. 2, p. 163-183en_HK
dc.identifier.issn1479-4012en_HK
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/60860-
dc.description.abstractThis article applies a generational perspective to approach the phenomenon of the development of an American foreign policy Establishment, an elite that was, from the late nineteenth century onward, committed to an expansive United States role, preferably in collaboration with the British empire. It argues that one can discern four generational groupings, stretching across a period of around a century: (a) the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century founders or forerunners, a group clustered around Theodore Roosevelt, who looked back to the Civil War as a formative experience; (b) those Americans already well into their careers, for whom World War I served as an epiphany, giving them new consciousness of the existence of Europe, and often converting them to a long-term belief in the importance of either Rooseveltian or Wilsonian internationalism; (c) those younger men whom one might term the ‘wise men’ generation, a group whose first formative experience was usually military experience in World War I, and who were also often much influenced by older men from the generation before them; and (d) the World War II generation, a less cohesive group of younger men whose formative experience was service in World War II, who witnessed the dissolution of the Establishment's authority and influence.-
dc.languageengen_HK
dc.publisherEdinburgh University Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/journals/content.aspx?pageId=1&journalId=12157en_HK
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Transatlantic Studiesen_HK
dc.rightsJournal of Transatlantic Studies. Copyright © Edinburgh University Press.en_HK
dc.subjectGenerations-
dc.subjectAmerican foreign policy elite-
dc.subjectEstablishment-
dc.subjectTransatlanticism-
dc.titleThe Transatlantic Foreign Policy Elite: Its Evolution in Generational Perspectiveen_HK
dc.typeArticleen_HK
dc.identifier.openurlhttp://library.hku.hk:4550/resserv?sid=HKU:IR&issn=1479-4012&volume=7:2&spage=163&epage=183&date=2009&atitle=The+Transatlantic+Foreign+Policy+Elite:+Its+Evolution+in+Generational+Perspectiveen_HK
dc.identifier.emailRoberts, PM: proberts@hkucc.hku.hken_HK
dc.identifier.authorityRoberts, PM=rp01195en_HK
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dc.identifier.doi10.1080/14794010902868322-
dc.identifier.hkuros157486en_HK
dc.identifier.issnl1479-4012-

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