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In , author Mel Leffler鈥檚 wide-ranging essays explain how policymakers shifted their focus from balancing economic imperatives at home and abroad to a preoccupation with safeguarding America鈥檚 core values of democratic capitalism. While assessing U.S. policymaking from World War I to the present, he also interrogates the evolution of his own scholarship. Over time, he married elements of revisionism with realism to form a unique synthesis that uses threat perception as a lens to understand the making of national security policy.

Melvyn P. Leffler is the Edward Stettinius Professor of American History at The University of Virginia and Compton Professor at UVA鈥檚 Miller Center. He is the author of , which won the Bancroft, Ferrell, and Hoover Prizes, as well as , which won the American Historical Association鈥檚 George Louis Beer Prize. He is also the editor and author of many books dealing with the evolution of American foreign economic policy and national security strategy from 浪花直播 to Obama. He has been president of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations as well as Harmsworth Professor at Oxford. The Washington History Seminar is co-chaired by Eric Arnesen (George Washington University) and Philippa Strum (Woodrow 浪花直播 Center) and is sponsored jointly by the National History Center of the American Historical Association and the 浪花直播 Center's History and Public Policy Program. It meets weekly during the academic year. The seminar thanks the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and the George Washington University History Department for their support.