Leon Fink is distinguished professor of history emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago and senior resident scholar at Georgetown University’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. He is the editor of the journal Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, and his many books include, most recently, Labor Justice Across the Americas (2017).

Offering a broad analysis of left-liberal approaches to foreign policy in the second half of the twentieth century, this is a gripping book that manages to elicit a vision of postwar liberalism as a global project and to suggest some of the real difficulties that it encountered.

• Introduction: Left-Liberal Apostles in the Cold War EraPart I: Labor-Liberalism and the Postwar Order1. The Bretton Woods Boomerang: Liberal Internationalism, 1944–20162. The Good Postwar: German Worker Rights, 1945–19503. The Liberal Embrace of Labor Zionism: Israel, 1948–1973Part II: Liberal Anticommunism4. Anticommunism as Social Policy: Costa Rica, 1944–19805. Siren Song of Economic Development: U.S. Missions to India, 1952–1975Part III: Liberal Nationalism on Trial6. The Quest for a Two-State Solution: Israel, 1973–20007. The Long Arm of the Civil Rights Movement: South Africa, 1970–2000Conclusion: Beyond HumanitarianismAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

Leon Fink is distinguished professor of history emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago and senior resident scholar at Georgetown University’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. He is the editor of the journal Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, and his many books include, most recently, Labor Justice Across the Americas (2017).

Offering a broad analysis of left-liberal approaches to foreign policy in the second half of the twentieth century, this is a gripping book that manages to elicit a vision of postwar liberalism as a global project and to suggest some of the real difficulties that it encountered.

• Introduction: Left-Liberal Apostles in the Cold War EraPart I: Labor-Liberalism and the Postwar Order1. The Bretton Woods Boomerang: Liberal Internationalism, 1944–20162. The Good Postwar: German Worker Rights, 1945–19503. The Liberal Embrace of Labor Zionism: Israel, 1948–1973Part II: Liberal Anticommunism4. Anticommunism as Social Policy: Costa Rica, 1944–19805. Siren Song of Economic Development: U.S. Missions to India, 1952–1975Part III: Liberal Nationalism on Trial6. The Quest for a Two-State Solution: Israel, 1973–20007. The Long Arm of the Civil Rights Movement: South Africa, 1970–2000Conclusion: Beyond HumanitarianismAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

Leon Fink is distinguished professor of history emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago and senior resident scholar at Georgetown University’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. He is the editor of the journal Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, and his many books include, most recently, Labor Justice Across the Americas (2017).

Offering a broad analysis of left-liberal approaches to foreign policy in the second half of the twentieth century, this is a gripping book that manages to elicit a vision of postwar liberalism as a global project and to suggest some of the real difficulties that it encountered.

• Introduction: Left-Liberal Apostles in the Cold War EraPart I: Labor-Liberalism and the Postwar Order1. The Bretton Woods Boomerang: Liberal Internationalism, 1944–20162. The Good Postwar: German Worker Rights, 1945–19503. The Liberal Embrace of Labor Zionism: Israel, 1948–1973Part II: Liberal Anticommunism4. Anticommunism as Social Policy: Costa Rica, 1944–19805. Siren Song of Economic Development: U.S. Missions to India, 1952–1975Part III: Liberal Nationalism on Trial6. The Quest for a Two-State Solution: Israel, 1973–20007. The Long Arm of the Civil Rights Movement: South Africa, 1970–2000Conclusion: Beyond HumanitarianismAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex