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Book Review
Canada and the United States
| Liping Bu. Making the World Like Us: Education, Cultural Expansion, and the American Century. (Perspectives on the Twentieth Century.) Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 2004. Pp. xx, 279. $70.00.
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| The title of this scholarly work accurately captures the central dynamics of the United States' use of educational and cultural exchange programs as a fourth dimension of foreign policy. In this historical overview of a century of U.S. engagement with the rest of the world, Liping Bu describes in rich detail the complementary as well as conflicting roles that international scholarly and student exchange programs have played in pursuit of the economic, political, and military goals of various Washington D.C. administrations and nongovernmental organizations. |
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