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Belief in the United States as a force for good in the world runs deep. Yet an honest consideration reveals a history marred by great crimes and ordinary errors, alongside many achievements and triumphs. In this comprehensive account of American foreign relations from the nation´s founding through the present day, the diplomatic historian Warren I. Cohen calls attention to the uses - and abuses - of U.S. international leadership and the noble as well as the exploitative ends that American power has wrought.

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A lively, well-written history of America´s foreign policy and diplomacy from 1776 to the present. This is a superb synthesis, in places quite provocative in its arguments, and a signal accomplishment. George Herring, University of Kentucky

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Warren I. Cohen is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. His Columbia University Press books include East Asian Art and American Culture (1992), East Asia at the Center: Four Thousand Years of Engagement with the World (2001), and America´s Response to China: A History of Sino-American Relations (fifth edition, 2010).

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