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Many Americans are bewildered by the hostilities and even hatred toward the United States on the part of newly independent Third World nations. Are we not the country of freedom and hope? Doesn't almost everybody want to come here and share in the benefits of our great system, the American way of life? Are we not the leader of the world democratic movement? Why are we so often seen as repressive and anti-democratic? Why does it matter? These are the questions that experienced diplomat and scholar David D. Newsom seeks to understand in this thoughtful review of US relations with the Third World since World War II. Newsom traces the upheavals in the post-war era as the peoples of British, Dutch, Belgium, and Portuguese empires demanded and gained independence. The new nations had a sense of shared heritage and pressed the industrial world for assistance in trade and financial concessions. They were especially strident in the United Nations General Assembly. As the most powerful leader of the free world, despite its anti-colonial heritage, the United States tended to inherit the imperial mantle in this period, becoming the focus both of expectations and demands from the new nations. How the United States lived up to these expectations, and how it responded to the challenge of world leadership and the burdens of being number one constitute the central issues engaged by this book. It is must reading for anyone who wants to understand the foreign policy challenges that America will face in the twenty-first century.
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"To understand why some people in the Third World like to throw rocks at us, read this book." --Richard B. Parker
Many Americans are bewildered by the hostilities and even hatred toward the United States on the part of newly independent Third World nations. In this thoughtful review, experienced diplomat and scholar David Newsom reveals that despite its anti-colonial heritage, the United States inherited the imperial mantle after World War II, becoming the focus both of expectations and demands from the new nations. How the United States lived up to these expectations, and how it responded to the challenge of world leadership and the burdens of being number one constitute the central issues engaged by this book.
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The New East India House
2001/7/25
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Beware, politicians, historians, and those who have any interest or role in the Americanization of the universe!! Mr. Newsom's observations, experience, understanding, and prescriptions, express and implied, are the nutrients we will have to digest to survive the cultural disembowelment of the rest of the world. This book is mandatory reading in the understanding of anti-American sentiments; as among the descriptions of the United States provided by his multi-national contacts, we are "the new East India Company."
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A thin mantle
2002/3/20
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The premise of the book is interesting and Newsome asked some important questions such as: Why do we have such poor relationships with so much of the Third World? How is it that a nation forged in an anti-colonial struggle allows itself to become imperialistic? Newsome provides a broad historical overview of the development of our foreign policies which have effectively allowed the U.S. to inherit the IMPERIAL MANTLE given up by the British Empire.
The analysis covers the period of greatest imperial retreat, the 19th century and focuses on Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. This is a vast amount of territory to cover and to try do it in a little over 200 pages is asking too much of the book. As such the analysis is a rather thin mantle. The chapters on Africa highlight how foreign policy myopia develops when there is an insistence on seeing everything through Cold War eyeglasses. Unfortunately "highlights" remains the operative word. After describing the independence movements in central Africa in the 1960's - most notoriously our involvement in Lumumba's assassination in the Congo - the author leaves us dangling. He asks "Was there ever a real Soviet and Cuban threat to U.S. interests in Africa? Was the U.S. manipulation of events in the Congo and Angola in the interest of the United States and the peoples of the region?" Again important questions and Newsome is certainly qualified to answer them. To the extent that he is unable to, and has to admit that "such questions cannot be fully answered", largely due to his book's too thin coverage, the outcome is then a little disappointing.
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