American Foreign Relations in European Perspectives Geopolitics and the Writing of History

• Published in: Historians across Borders p. 118
• Main Authors: HANS KRABBENDAM, PAULINE PERETZ, MARIO DEL PERO, HELLE PORSDAM
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of California Press 21.03.2014
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: American studies; Anthropology; Behavioral sciences; Bilateralism; Cold wars; Diplomatic history; Ethnography; Ethnology; Foreign policy; Government; Historians; Historical methodology; Historiography; History; History of the Americas; Human geography; Human migration; Human rights; International disputes; International politics; International relations; Jurisprudence; Law; Military history; Natural law; Natural rights; North American history; Philosophy of law; Political migration; Political science; Politics; Public administration; Public policy; Social sciences; United States history
• ISBN: 9780520279278; 0520279271

Although the United States and Europe have no common borders, they have always shared a sense of historical proximity—which has been “translated,” at one point or another, into wars and alliances, migrations, intellectual exchanges, and trade. Yet more and more, Europe is disappearing from the picture, losing relevance and centrality in the American representation of the world. Americans are more interested, geopolitically and academically, in other regions, such as Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia. What this means is that the geopolitical background from which European scholars are writing is deeply asymmetrical: since the fall of the Berlin