research overview
- I relate the many elements of American foreign relations to economic globalization and the international and domestic scenes. I seek out the linkages between the global economy (and its related cultural and political realms) to American policies, and do so as a historian operating in an arena occupied by social scientists. My research has been guided by the pursuit of understanding globalization as a historic phenomenon and relating it to the traditional field of U.S. foreign relations history and emerging trends in globalizing the study of American history itself. As well, I study World War II and how sports intersects with diplomacy.