Abstract
For most of postwar period dominant scholarly consensus on United States role in international politics closely paralleled image that policy makers themselves held: United States was a defensive, status-quo power seeking to contain revolutionary or simply imperialist expansionism of Soviet-led communism. The dominant critique of United States foreign policy operated well within this framework of assumptions; one common argument was that United States had a tendency to overreach itself, to undertake commitments that excessively taxed its military and economic capabilities. The focus was on limits of American power; critics never tired of quoting Sir Denis Brogan on the illusions of American omnipotence.
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