Clarence Streit and Twentieth-Century American Internationalism (Cambridge Studies in Us Foreign Relations)

Imlay, Talbot C.

Cambridge University Press（2025/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 233 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781009298971
• DDC分類 327.17

Full Description

In this illuminating and comprehensive account, Talbot C. Imlay chronicles the life of Clarence Streit and his Atlantic federal union movement in the Unites States during and following the Second World War. The first book to detail Streit's life, work and significance, it reveals the importance of public political cultures in shaping US foreign relations. In 1939, Streit published Union Now which proposed a federation of the North Atlantic democracies modelled on the US Constitution. The buzz created led Streit to leave his position at The New York Times and devote himself to promoting the union. Over the next quarter of a century, Streit worked to promote a new public political culture, employing a variety of strategies to gain visibility and political legitimacy for his project and for federalist frameworks. In doing so, Streit helped shape wartime debates on the nature of the post-war international order and of transatlantic relations.

Contents

Introduction; 1. The making of an Atlantic Federalist, 1914 to 1939; 2. Writing and selling Union Now, 1939-1941; 3. The wartime pursuit of Federal Union, 1940-1945; 4. Clarence Streit and Federal Union during the Cold War; 5. Clarence Streit, the Atlantic Union Committee, and postwar Atlanticism; Conclusion.