Where’s the Beef? Culture Without Power in the Study of U.S. Foreign Relations
Author(s)
Buzzanco, Robert
Abstract
The author argues that, while new methodologies in the study of diplomatic history may be interesting from a social or cultural perspective, they do little to illuminate the larger historical reasons for diplomatic actions. The US foreign policy in South Asia during the Cold War is used as an example of how approaches from other fields such as sociology, literary criticism or anthropology are applied to diplomatic history yet fail to take into account broader power relationships.
