Dr. Lynch is Lecturer in American Politics at the School of Social and Political Studies in the University of Melbourne. He is the author of two books (Turf War: The Clinton Administration and Northern Ireland, Ashgate, 2004; and, with Robert Singh, After Bush: The Case for Continuity in American Foreign Policy, CUP, 2008 - a winner of the 2009 Richard E. Neustadt book prize). His third book, a history of US foreign policy after the Cold War will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2011. He has guest-edited the journal International Politics and has facilitates several major academic conferences each year in London. As director of the Boston College Center in Dublin, Ireland (2000-2003), Dr. Lynch worked routinely with serving US diplomats on the Northern Ireland peace process. A Fulbright Scholar, he holds a PhD in political science from Boston College.

"Comprehensive, authoritative, and current entries from leading scholars give you the real story not always found on the Internet." --Library Journal"Lynch makes a good case for the usefulness and logic of this work. I am familiar with Lynch's published work and find it first-rate. He is knowledgeable, rigorous, shows excellent knowldge of the field as well as sound judgment about authors and sources. Lynch makes a good case for the strengths of this volume as compared with alternatives." -Robert J. Lieber, Professor of Government & International Affairs, Georgetown University

• Acheson, Dean ; Adams, John ; Adams, John Quincy ; Adams-Onis Treaty ; Addams, Jane ; Afghanistan War (Since 2001) ; Agency for International Development ; Air Force, U.S. ; Overview ; Origins of the Air Force ; Air Force Independence and the Cold War ; Alabama Claims Controversy ; Alamo, Battle of the ; Alaska, Purchase of ; Albright, Madeleine ; Algeciras Conference ; Alliance for Progress ; America First Committee ; American Friends Service Committee ; American Legion ; Analogy in U.S. Diplomacy ; Antebellum Era, U.S. Military and Diplomatic Affairs during the ; Anti-Americanism ; Anti-Communism ; Antietam, Battle of ; Anti-imperialism ; Anti-nuclear Protest Movements ; Antiwar Movements ; Apartheid, U.S. Policy toward ; Arlington National Cemetery ; Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. ; Army, U.S.:Overview ; Army, U.S.: Colonial and Revolutionary Eras ; Army, U.S.: 1783-1865 ; Army, U.S.: 1866-99 ; Army, U.S.: 1900-41 ; Army, U.S.: Since 1941 ; Arthur, Chester A. ; Articles of Confederation ; Atlantic Charter ; Atomic Energy Commission ; Bacon's Rebellion ; Baker, James ; Balch, Emily ; Barbary Wars ; Baruch Plan ; Bases, U.S. Military, Domestic and Foreign ; Bay of Pigs ; Berlin Blockade and Airlift ; Black Hawk ; Blaine, James G. ; Bombing, Strategy and Ethics of ; Bonus Army ; Boston Massacre ; Boston Tea Party ; Brant, Joseph ; Bretton Woods Conference ; Brownsville Incident ; Bryan, William Jennings ; Buchanan, James ; Bulge, Battle of the ; Bull Run, Battle of ; Bunche, Ralph J. ; Bundy, McGeorge ; Bunker Hill, Battle of ; Bureau of Indian Affairs ; Burr, Aaron ; Bush, George H. W. ; Bush, George W. ; Bush, Vannevar ; Camp David Accords ; Carnegie Endowment for International Peace ; Carter, Jimmy ; Central Intelligence Agency ; Chaplaincy, in the U.S. Military ; Cheney, Richard B. ; Cherokee Cases ; Christopher, Warren ; Civil Defense ; Civil Liberties, Suppression of ; Civil War (1861-65) ; Civil War: Causes ; Civil War: Military and Diplomatic Course ; Civil War: Domestic Course ; Civil War: Postwar Impact ; Civil War: Changing Interpretations ; Clark, George Rogers ; Clay, Henry ; Clayton-Bulwer Treaty ; Cleveland, Grover ; Clifford, Clark ; Clinton, Bill ; Coast Guard, U.S. ; Cold War (1945-91) ; Cold War: Causes ; Cold War: External Course ; Cold War: Domestic Course ; Cold War: Changing Interpretations ; Collective Security ; Colonial Era, U.S. Diplomatic and Military History during the ; Commander-in-Chief, President as ; Conant, James B. ; Confederate States of America ; Congress and Foreign Policy and Military Affairs ; Conscientious Objection ; Conscription ; Constitution, Basis for Diplomacy and War in the ; Constitutional Convention of 1787 ; Containment ; Coolidge, Calvin ; Council on Foreign Relations ; Counterinsurgency ; Covert Operations ; Crazy Horse ; Cuban Missile Crisis ; Cultural Turn in History of U.S. Foreign Relations ; Davis, Jefferson ; Dawes Severalty Act ; D-Day ; Declaration of Independence ; Defense Contractors, Private ; Defense, Department of ; Defense Industry ; Democracy Promotion ; Democratic Party ; Detente ; Diplomacy, Theories of ; Dollar Diplomacy ; Domestic Politics, Influence of, on U.S. Foreign Policy ; Domino Theory ; Drugs, War on ; Dulles, John Foster ; Early Republic, U.S. Military and Diplomatic Affairs during the ; Eisenhower, Dwight D. ; Embargo Acts ; Exceptionalism in U.S. Foreign Relations ; Expansionism ; Farragut, David ; Ford, Gerald R. ; Foreign Aid ; Foreign Policy ; Foreign Policy Analysis ; Foreign Relations ; Foundations, Philanthropic, and U.S. Foreign Policy ; Fourteen Points ; Franklin, Benjamin ; Fulbright, William ; Gadsden Purchase ; Garvey, Marcus ; Gender and American Foreign Policy ; Gender, Sexuality and War ; Geneva Conventions ; Geronimo ; Gettysburg, Battle of ; Gettysburg Address ; Ghent, Treaty of ; G.I. Bill ; Gilded Age and Progressive Era, U.S. Military and Diplomatic Affairs during the ; Global Economy, America and the ; Good Neighbor Policy ; Grand Army of the Republic ; Grand Strategy ; Grant, Ulysses S. ; Greene, Nathanael ; Grenada, Invasion of ; Group of Seven Conferences ; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution ; Haig, Alexander ; Hamilton, Alexander ; Hay, John ; Helsinki Accords ; Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Atomic Bombing of ; Historiography ; Historiography: American Diplomatic History ; Historiography: American Military History ; Holbrooke, Richard ; Homosexuality, Policy toward, in the U.S. Military ; Hoover, Herbert ; Hopkins, Harry ; Houston, Sam ; Hull, Cordell ; Human Rights, International ; Hussein, Saddam ; Ideals, Military ; Ideology as a Factor in U.S. Foreign Relations ; Imperial Wars ; Institution of Pacific Relations ; Insular Cases ; Intelligence, Military and Political ; International Criminal Court ; Internationalism ; International Law ; International Monetary Fund ; International Relations Theory and U.S. Foreign Policy ; Internment of Enemy Aliens and Combatants ; Interventionism ; Interwar Period, U.S. Military and Diplomatic Affairs during the ; Iran-Contra Affair ; Iraq Wars (1990-2010) ; Iroquois Confederacy ; Isolationism ; Iwo Jima, Battle of ; Jackson, Andrew ; Jackson, Henry <"Scoop>" ; Jackson, Thomas J. <"Stonewall>" ; Japanese Americans, Incarceration of ; Jay, John ; Jay's Treaty ; Jefferson, Thomas ; Johnson, Andrew ; Johnson, Lyndon B. ; Jones, John Paul ; Judiciary and Foreign Policy ; Justice, Military ; Justice, Military: Articles of War (1775-1950) ; Justice, Military: Uniform Code of Military Justice (Since 1950) ; Justice, Military: Military Crimes ; Justice, Military: Military Police ; Justice, Military: Military Courts ; Justice, Military: Military Punishment ; Justice, Military: Military Prisons ; Just War Theory ; Kellogg, Frank ; Kellogg-Briand Pact ; Kennan, George F. ; Kennedy, John F. ; King, Ernest J. ; King Philip's War ; Kirkpatrick, Jeane ; Kissinger, Henry ; Korean War (1950-1953) ; Laird, Melvin ; Lansing, Robert ; League of Nations ; Leahy, William D. ; Lee, Robert E. ; LeMay, Curtis E. ; Leyte Gulf, Battle of ; Lincoln, Abraham ; Little Bighorn, Battle of the ; Lobbies, Influence of, on U.S. Foreign Policy ; London Economic Conference ; Louisiana Purchase ; MacArthur, Douglas ; Madison, James ; Mahan, Alfred Thayer ; Maine, USS, Sinking of ; Manhattan Project ; Manifest Destiny ; Marine Corps, U.S. ; Marine Corps, U.S.: Overview ; Marine Corps, U.S.: 1775-1865 ; Marine Corps, U.S.: 1865-1914 ; Marine Corps, U.S.: 1914-1945 ; Marine Corps, U.S.: Since 1945 ; Marshall, George ; Marshall Plan ; Mayaguez Incident ; McClellan, George ; McKinley, William ; McNamara, Robert S. ; Media, Role of, in U.S. Foreign Policy ; War and the Military in News Media ; War and the Military in Photography ; Meigs, Montgomery ; Mexican War (1846-1848) ; Midway, Battle of ; Military-Industrial Complex ; Military Service Academies ; Missionary Movements ; Mitchell, Billy ; Modernization Theory ; Monroe, James ; Monroe Doctrine ; Moore, John Bassett ; Morgenthau Plan ; Mormon War ; My Lai Massacre ; National Guard and Army Reserve ; National Security ; National Security Act of 1947 ; National Security Council Document 68 ; Native Americans in the Military ; Native American Wars ; Navigation Acts ; Navy, U.S. ; Navy, U.S.: Overview ; Navy, U.S.: 1783-1865 ; Navy, U.S.: 1866-1898 ; Navy, U.S.: 1899-1945 ; Navy, U.S.: Since 1945 ; Neoconservatism ; Neutrality ; Neutrality Acts ; New Look Policy, Eisenhower's ; New Orleans, Battle of ; Niebuhr, Reinhold ; Nimitz, Chester ; Nitze, Paul ; Nixon, Richard M. ; North Atlantic Treaty Organization ; Northern Ireland Peace Process, U.S. Diplomacy in the ; Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty, Comprehensive ; Nuclear Weapons and Strategy ; The Cold War Nuclear Arms Race ; Nuclear Arms Control in the Cold War ; Nuclear Counter-proliferation after the Cold War ; Missile and Nuclear Missile Defense ; Obama, Barack ; Office of Strategic Services ; Olney, Richard ; Opechancanough ; Open Door Policy ; Organization of American States ; Osceola ; Ostend Manifesto ; Pacificism ; Paine, Thomas ; Panama, U.S. Military Intervention in ; Panama Canal ; Pan-American Union ; Paris, Treaty of ; Patton, George S., Jr. ; Peace Corps ; Peace Movements ; Peace Progressives ; Pearl Harbor, Attack on ; Pensions, Civil War ; Pentagon, The ; Pentagon Papers ; Pequot War ; Permanent Court of International Justice ; Perry, Matthew ; Pershing, John J. ; Philippine War (1899-1902) ; Pierce, Franklin ; Pinckney's Treaty ; Pocahontas ; Point Four Program ; Political Warfare ; Polk, James Knox ; Pontiac ; Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder ; Potsdam Conference ; Powell, Colin ; Powhatan ; Preparedness Controversy ; Presidential Decision Making and Foreign Policy ; Presentis, Foreign Policy Legacies of ; Proclamation of 1763 ; Public Diplomacy ; Public Opinion, Influence of, on U.S. Diplomacy ; Pueblo Revolt ; Quasi-War with France ; Rabi, Isidor I. ; Race and Foreign Relations ; Race and the Military ; Rankin, Jeannette ; Reagan, Ronald ; Reconstruction ; Red Cloud ; Red Cross, American ; Reed, Walter ; Religion, Influence on, on U.S. Diplomacy ; Republican Party ; Revere, Paul ; Revolutionary War (1775-1783) ; Revolutionary War: Causes ; Revolutionary War: Military and Diplomatic Course ; Revolutionary War: Domestic Course ; Revolutionary War: Postwar Impact ; Revolutionary War: Changing Interpretations ; Rice, Condoleezza ; Roosevelt, Eleanor ; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano ; Roosevelt, Theodore ; Root, Elihu ; Rosenberg Case ; Rostow, Walt W. ; ROTC ; Rumsfeld, Donald ; Rusk, Dean ; San Francisco Conference ; Saratoga, Battle of ; Schwarzkopf, H. Norman ; Scott, Winfield ; Scowcroft, Brent ; September 11th Terrorist Attacks ; Seven Years' War ; Seward, William ; Shays's Rebellion ; Sherman, William T. ; Shiloh, Battle of ; Shultz, George Pratt ; Sitting Bull ; Smith, John ; Soft Power, Concept of ; Spanish-American War (1898) ; State, Department of ; State, U.S. Secretaries of ; Stilwell, Joseph ; Stimson, Henry ; Strategic Air Command ; Strategic Defense Initiative ; Strategy ; Submarines and Submarine Warfare ; Taft, William Howard ; Taylor, Zachary ; Tecumseh ; Territories, Legal and Foreign Policy and Status of ; Terror, War on ; Tet Offensive ; Think Tanks and U.S. Military and Diplomatic Affairs ; Tomb of the Unknowns ; Torture, Issue of, in U.S. Military and Diplomatic Affairs ; Trade and Tariffs and U.S. Diplomacy and War ; Trading with the Enemy Act ; Truman, Harry S. ; United Nations, U.S. Relationship with the ; United States Foreign Relations ; United States Foreign Relations: Africa ; United States Foreign Relations: Asia ; United States Foreign Relations: Australasia ; United States Foreign Relations: Caribbean ; United States Foreign Relations: Central and South America ; United States Foreign Relations: China ; United States Foreign Relations: Europe ; United States Foreign Relations: India ; United States Foreign Relations: Iran ; United States Foreign Relations: Middle East ; United States Foreign Relations: Russia ; United States Information Agency ; Valley Forge ; Van Buren, Martin ; Versailles, Treaty of ; Veterans ; Veterans: Overview ; Veterans: The Veterans Administration ; Vicksburg, Siege of ; Vietnam Veterans Memorial ; Vietnam War (1960-1975) ; Voice of America ; Walker, William ; War, American Way of ; War and Peace in American Popular Culture ; War Crimes Trial, Nuremberg and Tokyo ; Warfare, Psychological ; War in American Popular Culture ; War Industries Board ; War of 1812 ; War Powers Act ; War Propaganda and Popular Culture, American ; Washington, George ; Washington Naval Arms Conference ; Washington's Farewell Address ; Weaponry, Nonnuclear ; Webster-Ashburton Treaty ; Weinberger, Caspar ; Whiskey Rebellion ; Wilson, Woodrow ; Wisconsin School of American Diplomatic History ; World Bank ; World War I (1914-1918) ; World War I: Overview ; World War I: Causes ; World War I: Causes of U.S. Entry ; World War I: Military and Diplomatic Course ; World War I: Domestic Course ; World War I: Postwar Impact ; World War I: Changing Interpretations ; World War II (1939-1945) ; World War II: Causes ; World War II: Military and Diplomatic Course ; World War II: Domestic Course ; World War II: Postwar Impact ; World War II: Changing Interpretations ; XYZ Affair ; Yalta Conference ; Yorktown, Battle of ; Yugoslav Wars

Dr. Lynch is Lecturer in American Politics at the School of Social and Political Studies in the University of Melbourne. He is the author of two books (Turf War: The Clinton Administration and Northern Ireland, Ashgate, 2004; and, with Robert Singh, After Bush: The Case for Continuity in American Foreign Policy, CUP, 2008 - a winner of the 2009 Richard E. Neustadt book prize). His third book, a history of US foreign policy after the Cold War will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2011. He has guest-edited the journal International Politics and has facilitates several major academic conferences each year in London. As director of the Boston College Center in Dublin, Ireland (2000-2003), Dr. Lynch worked routinely with serving US diplomats on the Northern Ireland peace process. A Fulbright Scholar, he holds a PhD in political science from Boston College.

"Comprehensive, authoritative, and current entries from leading scholars give you the real story not always found on the Internet." --Library Journal"Lynch makes a good case for the usefulness and logic of this work. I am familiar with Lynch's published work and find it first-rate. He is knowledgeable, rigorous, shows excellent knowldge of the field as well as sound judgment about authors and sources. Lynch makes a good case for the strengths of this volume as compared with alternatives." -Robert J. Lieber, Professor of Government & International Affairs, Georgetown University

• Acheson, Dean ; Adams, John ; Adams, John Quincy ; Adams-Onis Treaty ; Addams, Jane ; Afghanistan War (Since 2001) ; Agency for International Development ; Air Force, U.S. ; Overview ; Origins of the Air Force ; Air Force Independence and the Cold War ; Alabama Claims Controversy ; Alamo, Battle of the ; Alaska, Purchase of ; Albright, Madeleine ; Algeciras Conference ; Alliance for Progress ; America First Committee ; American Friends Service Committee ; American Legion ; Analogy in U.S. Diplomacy ; Antebellum Era, U.S. Military and Diplomatic Affairs during the ; Anti-Americanism ; Anti-Communism ; Antietam, Battle of ; Anti-imperialism ; Anti-nuclear Protest Movements ; Antiwar Movements ; Apartheid, U.S. Policy toward ; Arlington National Cemetery ; Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. ; Army, U.S.:Overview ; Army, U.S.: Colonial and Revolutionary Eras ; Army, U.S.: 1783-1865 ; Army, U.S.: 1866-99 ; Army, U.S.: 1900-41 ; Army, U.S.: Since 1941 ; Arthur, Chester A. ; Articles of Confederation ; Atlantic Charter ; Atomic Energy Commission ; Bacon's Rebellion ; Baker, James ; Balch, Emily ; Barbary Wars ; Baruch Plan ; Bases, U.S. Military, Domestic and Foreign ; Bay of Pigs ; Berlin Blockade and Airlift ; Black Hawk ; Blaine, James G. ; Bombing, Strategy and Ethics of ; Bonus Army ; Boston Massacre ; Boston Tea Party ; Brant, Joseph ; Bretton Woods Conference ; Brownsville Incident ; Bryan, William Jennings ; Buchanan, James ; Bulge, Battle of the ; Bull Run, Battle of ; Bunche, Ralph J. ; Bundy, McGeorge ; Bunker Hill, Battle of ; Bureau of Indian Affairs ; Burr, Aaron ; Bush, George H. W. ; Bush, George W. ; Bush, Vannevar ; Camp David Accords ; Carnegie Endowment for International Peace ; Carter, Jimmy ; Central Intelligence Agency ; Chaplaincy, in the U.S. Military ; Cheney, Richard B. ; Cherokee Cases ; Christopher, Warren ; Civil Defense ; Civil Liberties, Suppression of ; Civil War (1861-65) ; Civil War: Causes ; Civil War: Military and Diplomatic Course ; Civil War: Domestic Course ; Civil War: Postwar Impact ; Civil War: Changing Interpretations ; Clark, George Rogers ; Clay, Henry ; Clayton-Bulwer Treaty ; Cleveland, Grover ; Clifford, Clark ; Clinton, Bill ; Coast Guard, U.S. ; Cold War (1945-91) ; Cold War: Causes ; Cold War: External Course ; Cold War: Domestic Course ; Cold War: Changing Interpretations ; Collective Security ; Colonial Era, U.S. Diplomatic and Military History during the ; Commander-in-Chief, President as ; Conant, James B. ; Confederate States of America ; Congress and Foreign Policy and Military Affairs ; Conscientious Objection ; Conscription ; Constitution, Basis for Diplomacy and War in the ; Constitutional Convention of 1787 ; Containment ; Coolidge, Calvin ; Council on Foreign Relations ; Counterinsurgency ; Covert Operations ; Crazy Horse ; Cuban Missile Crisis ; Cultural Turn in History of U.S. Foreign Relations ; Davis, Jefferson ; Dawes Severalty Act ; D-Day ; Declaration of Independence ; Defense Contractors, Private ; Defense, Department of ; Defense Industry ; Democracy Promotion ; Democratic Party ; Detente ; Diplomacy, Theories of ; Dollar Diplomacy ; Domestic Politics, Influence of, on U.S. Foreign Policy ; Domino Theory ; Drugs, War on ; Dulles, John Foster ; Early Republic, U.S. Military and Diplomatic Affairs during the ; Eisenhower, Dwight D. ; Embargo Acts ; Exceptionalism in U.S. Foreign Relations ; Expansionism ; Farragut, David ; Ford, Gerald R. ; Foreign Aid ; Foreign Policy ; Foreign Policy Analysis ; Foreign Relations ; Foundations, Philanthropic, and U.S. Foreign Policy ; Fourteen Points ; Franklin, Benjamin ; Fulbright, William ; Gadsden Purchase ; Garvey, Marcus ; Gender and American Foreign Policy ; Gender, Sexuality and War ; Geneva Conventions ; Geronimo ; Gettysburg, Battle of ; Gettysburg Address ; Ghent, Treaty of ; G.I. Bill ; Gilded Age and Progressive Era, U.S. Military and Diplomatic Affairs during the ; Global Economy, America and the ; Good Neighbor Policy ; Grand Army of the Republic ; Grand Strategy ; Grant, Ulysses S. ; Greene, Nathanael ; Grenada, Invasion of ; Group of Seven Conferences ; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution ; Haig, Alexander ; Hamilton, Alexander ; Hay, John ; Helsinki Accords ; Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Atomic Bombing of ; Historiography ; Historiography: American Diplomatic History ; Historiography: American Military History ; Holbrooke, Richard ; Homosexuality, Policy toward, in the U.S. Military ; Hoover, Herbert ; Hopkins, Harry ; Houston, Sam ; Hull, Cordell ; Human Rights, International ; Hussein, Saddam ; Ideals, Military ; Ideology as a Factor in U.S. Foreign Relations ; Imperial Wars ; Institution of Pacific Relations ; Insular Cases ; Intelligence, Military and Political ; International Criminal Court ; Internationalism ; International Law ; International Monetary Fund ; International Relations Theory and U.S. Foreign Policy ; Internment of Enemy Aliens and Combatants ; Interventionism ; Interwar Period, U.S. Military and Diplomatic Affairs during the ; Iran-Contra Affair ; Iraq Wars (1990-2010) ; Iroquois Confederacy ; Isolationism ; Iwo Jima, Battle of ; Jackson, Andrew ; Jackson, Henry <"Scoop>" ; Jackson, Thomas J. <"Stonewall>" ; Japanese Americans, Incarceration of ; Jay, John ; Jay's Treaty ; Jefferson, Thomas ; Johnson, Andrew ; Johnson, Lyndon B. ; Jones, John Paul ; Judiciary and Foreign Policy ; Justice, Military ; Justice, Military: Articles of War (1775-1950) ; Justice, Military: Uniform Code of Military Justice (Since 1950) ; Justice, Military: Military Crimes ; Justice, Military: Military Police ; Justice, Military: Military Courts ; Justice, Military: Military Punishment ; Justice, Military: Military Prisons ; Just War Theory ; Kellogg, Frank ; Kellogg-Briand Pact ; Kennan, George F. ; Kennedy, John F. ; King, Ernest J. ; King Philip's War ; Kirkpatrick, Jeane ; Kissinger, Henry ; Korean War (1950-1953) ; Laird, Melvin ; Lansing, Robert ; League of Nations ; Leahy, William D. ; Lee, Robert E. ; LeMay, Curtis E. ; Leyte Gulf, Battle of ; Lincoln, Abraham ; Little Bighorn, Battle of the ; Lobbies, Influence of, on U.S. Foreign Policy ; London Economic Conference ; Louisiana Purchase ; MacArthur, Douglas ; Madison, James ; Mahan, Alfred Thayer ; Maine, USS, Sinking of ; Manhattan Project ; Manifest Destiny ; Marine Corps, U.S. ; Marine Corps, U.S.: Overview ; Marine Corps, U.S.: 1775-1865 ; Marine Corps, U.S.: 1865-1914 ; Marine Corps, U.S.: 1914-1945 ; Marine Corps, U.S.: Since 1945 ; Marshall, George ; Marshall Plan ; Mayaguez Incident ; McClellan, George ; McKinley, William ; McNamara, Robert S. ; Media, Role of, in U.S. Foreign Policy ; War and the Military in News Media ; War and the Military in Photography ; Meigs, Montgomery ; Mexican War (1846-1848) ; Midway, Battle of ; Military-Industrial Complex ; Military Service Academies ; Missionary Movements ; Mitchell, Billy ; Modernization Theory ; Monroe, James ; Monroe Doctrine ; Moore, John Bassett ; Morgenthau Plan ; Mormon War ; My Lai Massacre ; National Guard and Army Reserve ; National Security ; National Security Act of 1947 ; National Security Council Document 68 ; Native Americans in the Military ; Native American Wars ; Navigation Acts ; Navy, U.S. ; Navy, U.S.: Overview ; Navy, U.S.: 1783-1865 ; Navy, U.S.: 1866-1898 ; Navy, U.S.: 1899-1945 ; Navy, U.S.: Since 1945 ; Neoconservatism ; Neutrality ; Neutrality Acts ; New Look Policy, Eisenhower's ; New Orleans, Battle of ; Niebuhr, Reinhold ; Nimitz, Chester ; Nitze, Paul ; Nixon, Richard M. ; North Atlantic Treaty Organization ; Northern Ireland Peace Process, U.S. Diplomacy in the ; Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty, Comprehensive ; Nuclear Weapons and Strategy ; The Cold War Nuclear Arms Race ; Nuclear Arms Control in the Cold War ; Nuclear Counter-proliferation after the Cold War ; Missile and Nuclear Missile Defense ; Obama, Barack ; Office of Strategic Services ; Olney, Richard ; Opechancanough ; Open Door Policy ; Organization of American States ; Osceola ; Ostend Manifesto ; Pacificism ; Paine, Thomas ; Panama, U.S. Military Intervention in ; Panama Canal ; Pan-American Union ; Paris, Treaty of ; Patton, George S., Jr. ; Peace Corps ; Peace Movements ; Peace Progressives ; Pearl Harbor, Attack on ; Pensions, Civil War ; Pentagon, The ; Pentagon Papers ; Pequot War ; Permanent Court of International Justice ; Perry, Matthew ; Pershing, John J. ; Philippine War (1899-1902) ; Pierce, Franklin ; Pinckney's Treaty ; Pocahontas ; Point Four Program ; Political Warfare ; Polk, James Knox ; Pontiac ; Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder ; Potsdam Conference ; Powell, Colin ; Powhatan ; Preparedness Controversy ; Presidential Decision Making and Foreign Policy ; Presentis, Foreign Policy Legacies of ; Proclamation of 1763 ; Public Diplomacy ; Public Opinion, Influence of, on U.S. Diplomacy ; Pueblo Revolt ; Quasi-War with France ; Rabi, Isidor I. ; Race and Foreign Relations ; Race and the Military ; Rankin, Jeannette ; Reagan, Ronald ; Reconstruction ; Red Cloud ; Red Cross, American ; Reed, Walter ; Religion, Influence on, on U.S. Diplomacy ; Republican Party ; Revere, Paul ; Revolutionary War (1775-1783) ; Revolutionary War: Causes ; Revolutionary War: Military and Diplomatic Course ; Revolutionary War: Domestic Course ; Revolutionary War: Postwar Impact ; Revolutionary War: Changing Interpretations ; Rice, Condoleezza ; Roosevelt, Eleanor ; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano ; Roosevelt, Theodore ; Root, Elihu ; Rosenberg Case ; Rostow, Walt W. ; ROTC ; Rumsfeld, Donald ; Rusk, Dean ; San Francisco Conference ; Saratoga, Battle of ; Schwarzkopf, H. Norman ; Scott, Winfield ; Scowcroft, Brent ; September 11th Terrorist Attacks ; Seven Years' War ; Seward, William ; Shays's Rebellion ; Sherman, William T. ; Shiloh, Battle of ; Shultz, George Pratt ; Sitting Bull ; Smith, John ; Soft Power, Concept of ; Spanish-American War (1898) ; State, Department of ; State, U.S. Secretaries of ; Stilwell, Joseph ; Stimson, Henry ; Strategic Air Command ; Strategic Defense Initiative ; Strategy ; Submarines and Submarine Warfare ; Taft, William Howard ; Taylor, Zachary ; Tecumseh ; Territories, Legal and Foreign Policy and Status of ; Terror, War on ; Tet Offensive ; Think Tanks and U.S. Military and Diplomatic Affairs ; Tomb of the Unknowns ; Torture, Issue of, in U.S. Military and Diplomatic Affairs ; Trade and Tariffs and U.S. Diplomacy and War ; Trading with the Enemy Act ; Truman, Harry S. ; United Nations, U.S. Relationship with the ; United States Foreign Relations ; United States Foreign Relations: Africa ; United States Foreign Relations: Asia ; United States Foreign Relations: Australasia ; United States Foreign Relations: Caribbean ; United States Foreign Relations: Central and South America ; United States Foreign Relations: China ; United States Foreign Relations: Europe ; United States Foreign Relations: India ; United States Foreign Relations: Iran ; United States Foreign Relations: Middle East ; United States Foreign Relations: Russia ; United States Information Agency ; Valley Forge ; Van Buren, Martin ; Versailles, Treaty of ; Veterans ; Veterans: Overview ; Veterans: The Veterans Administration ; Vicksburg, Siege of ; Vietnam Veterans Memorial ; Vietnam War (1960-1975) ; Voice of America ; Walker, William ; War, American Way of ; War and Peace in American Popular Culture ; War Crimes Trial, Nuremberg and Tokyo ; Warfare, Psychological ; War in American Popular Culture ; War Industries Board ; War of 1812 ; War Powers Act ; War Propaganda and Popular Culture, American ; Washington, George ; Washington Naval Arms Conference ; Washington's Farewell Address ; Weaponry, Nonnuclear ; Webster-Ashburton Treaty ; Weinberger, Caspar ; Whiskey Rebellion ; Wilson, Woodrow ; Wisconsin School of American Diplomatic History ; World Bank ; World War I (1914-1918) ; World War I: Overview ; World War I: Causes ; World War I: Causes of U.S. Entry ; World War I: Military and Diplomatic Course ; World War I: Domestic Course ; World War I: Postwar Impact ; World War I: Changing Interpretations ; World War II (1939-1945) ; World War II: Causes ; World War II: Military and Diplomatic Course ; World War II: Domestic Course ; World War II: Postwar Impact ; World War II: Changing Interpretations ; XYZ Affair ; Yalta Conference ; Yorktown, Battle of ; Yugoslav Wars

Dr. Lynch is Lecturer in American Politics at the School of Social and Political Studies in the University of Melbourne. He is the author of two books (Turf War: The Clinton Administration and Northern Ireland, Ashgate, 2004; and, with Robert Singh, After Bush: The Case for Continuity in American Foreign Policy, CUP, 2008 - a winner of the 2009 Richard E. Neustadt book prize). His third book, a history of US foreign policy after the Cold War will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2011. He has guest-edited the journal International Politics and has facilitates several major academic conferences each year in London. As director of the Boston College Center in Dublin, Ireland (2000-2003), Dr. Lynch worked routinely with serving US diplomats on the Northern Ireland peace process. A Fulbright Scholar, he holds a PhD in political science from Boston College.

"Comprehensive, authoritative, and current entries from leading scholars give you the real story not always found on the Internet." --Library Journal"Lynch makes a good case for the usefulness and logic of this work. I am familiar with Lynch's published work and find it first-rate. He is knowledgeable, rigorous, shows excellent knowldge of the field as well as sound judgment about authors and sources. Lynch makes a good case for the strengths of this volume as compared with alternatives." -Robert J. Lieber, Professor of Government & International Affairs, Georgetown University

• Acheson, Dean ; Adams, John ; Adams, John Quincy ; Adams-Onis Treaty ; Addams, Jane ; Afghanistan War (Since 2001) ; Agency for International Development ; Air Force, U.S. ; Overview ; Origins of the Air Force ; Air Force Independence and the Cold War ; Alabama Claims Controversy ; Alamo, Battle of the ; Alaska, Purchase of ; Albright, Madeleine ; Algeciras Conference ; Alliance for Progress ; America First Committee ; American Friends Service Committee ; American Legion ; Analogy in U.S. Diplomacy ; Antebellum Era, U.S. Military and Diplomatic Affairs during the ; Anti-Americanism ; Anti-Communism ; Antietam, Battle of ; Anti-imperialism ; Anti-nuclear Protest Movements ; Antiwar Movements ; Apartheid, U.S. Policy toward ; Arlington National Cemetery ; Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. ; Army, U.S.:Overview ; Army, U.S.: Colonial and Revolutionary Eras ; Army, U.S.: 1783-1865 ; Army, U.S.: 1866-99 ; Army, U.S.: 1900-41 ; Army, U.S.: Since 1941 ; Arthur, Chester A. ; Articles of Confederation ; Atlantic Charter ; Atomic Energy Commission ; Bacon's Rebellion ; Baker, James ; Balch, Emily ; Barbary Wars ; Baruch Plan ; Bases, U.S. Military, Domestic and Foreign ; Bay of Pigs ; Berlin Blockade and Airlift ; Black Hawk ; Blaine, James G. ; Bombing, Strategy and Ethics of ; Bonus Army ; Boston Massacre ; Boston Tea Party ; Brant, Joseph ; Bretton Woods Conference ; Brownsville Incident ; Bryan, William Jennings ; Buchanan, James ; Bulge, Battle of the ; Bull Run, Battle of ; Bunche, Ralph J. ; Bundy, McGeorge ; Bunker Hill, Battle of ; Bureau of Indian Affairs ; Burr, Aaron ; Bush, George H. 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