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Promise and Peril

America at the Dawn of a Global Age

Christopher McKnight Nichols

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ISBN 9780674503878

Publication Date: 03/23/2015

464 pages

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Christopher McKnight Nichols is Wayne Woodrow Hayes Chair of National Security Studies and Professor of History at The Ohio State University.

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At the Washington Post, read Christopher McKnight Nichols’s essay on the likely response from American Founding Fathers to news that the Trump administration has taken “oppo research” from foreign governments
At the Washington Post, read Nichols on how, a century later, the United States still struggles with its legacy of failure to act decisively in World War I
In the Oregonian, read Nichols’s reminder that U.S. entry into World War I inaugurated debates about dissent, identity, patriotism, nationalism, citizenship, and memory that continue to divide America in 2018
Listen to Nichols describe the impact of World War I on the geographically distant state of Oregon on Oregon Public Broadcasting’s Think Out Loud
Via C-SPAN’s American History TV, watch Nichols participate in a panel discussion, “Framing the History of the U.S. in World Affairs: Imperialism, Isolationism, and Internationalism”
Listen to Nichols discuss the new “surveillance society” on the Philosophy Talk podcast
Read more about Nichols in an American Historical Association “Member Spotlight”
In the Huffington Post, read Nichols on the global effects of the first World War, and the need for an American turn to a capacious, historically informed view of open diplomacy, in combination with stronger protections for privacy
In the Christian Science Monitor, read Nichols’s take on the “new isolationism” in United States foreign policy
At the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations website, read an essay by Nichols about increasing isolationism

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