Hal M. Friedman analyzes the major issues concerning the Pacific Basin that confronted the executive branch departments between 1945 and 1947.

For centuries, the Marshall Islands have been drawn into international politics, primarily because of their central location in Oceania. After World War II they

Many historians of U.S. foreign relations think of the post-World War II period as a time when the United States, as an anti-colonial power, advocated collectiv

A comprehensive assessment of the contours of maritime East Asia and its importance on the world stage.

The fourth volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines the heights of American global power in the mid-twentieth century and how challenge