Daniel Bessner, The Anne H. H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Associate Professor in American Foreign Policy in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, has co-edited “Rethinking U.S. World Power: Domestic Histories of U.S. Foreign Relations” (Palgrave, March 2024) with Michael Brenes, Co-Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy and Lecturer in History at Yale University.
The book, a volume of 10 chapters:
- Counters the prevailing trends in U.S. historiography to de-center the U.S. as leading global power
- Argues the U.S. remains a key player in geopolitical theatre, in particular the Global South
- Examines the relationship between U.S. domestic processes and U.S. international relations
In addition to the introduction, Bessner wrote and co-authored two of the chapters: “Recentering the United States in the Historiography of American Foreign Relations” and “U.S. Elites and Scientific Mobilization After World War II.“
