The Legacy of J. William Fulbright: Policy, Power, and Ideology
Alessandro Brogi, Giles Scott-Smith, and Snyder David J.
Abstract
The Legacy of J. William Fulbright: Policy, Power, and Ideology offers a fresh retrospective on the influential career of Senator J. William Fulbright, a leading foreign policy thinker and the longest-serving chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in American history. Juxtaposing Fulbright’s career as a foreign policy intellectual, including his powerful framing of post–World War II liberal internationalism, with his advocacy for the eponymous educational exchange program that he devised, this book contextualizes liberal internationalism within a broader sweep of US foreign policy ... More
The Legacy of J. William Fulbright: Policy, Power, and Ideology offers a fresh retrospective on the influential career of Senator J. William Fulbright, a leading foreign policy thinker and the longest-serving chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in American history. Juxtaposing Fulbright’s career as a foreign policy intellectual, including his powerful framing of post–World War II liberal internationalism, with his advocacy for the eponymous educational exchange program that he devised, this book contextualizes liberal internationalism within a broader sweep of US foreign policy thinking. Especially relevant is the role of American culture and political institutions in the formulation of liberal internationalism as well as the erosion of liberal internationalist confidence in the years after the Vietnam War, all exemplified by Fulbright’s public utterances, his conduct in office, and the foreign influence of the famed scholarly exchange program that bears his name.
Keywords:
Fulbright,
Educational exchange,
US Senate,
Liberal internationalism,
Race,
US foreign policy,
US foreign relations,
Cold War,
American empire
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2019 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780813177700 |
| Published to University Press Scholarship Online: January 2020 |
DOI:10.5810/kentucky/9780813177700.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Alessandro Brogi, editor
University of Arkansas
Giles Scott-Smith, editor
Leiden University
Snyder David J., editor
University of South Carolina
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