The article analyzes F. Gilbert’s interpretation of the genesis of the US foreign policy. The relevance of the study is determined by the low degree of elaboration of the topic in historiography. The source base consists of the historian’s works, reviews on them, documents of Bryn Mawr College, the Institute for Advanced Study of Princeton University, biographical and memoir works. A combination of biographical, historical-comparative, historical-chronological methods and a systematic approach constituted the methodology of the research. The results of the analysis allowed us to draw the following conclusions. The scientist’s interpretation of the origin of the United States foreign policy is characterized by the secondary character: the statement about the European and British experience as the origin was widespread in historical science during the last third of the 18th century and the first half of the 20th century. The researcher ignored works and underestimated the significance of the contribution of predecessors and contemporaries. Despite the fact that the historian’s references to the topic were a consequence of his career aspirations, he became one of the associates of revisionism: F. Gilbert applied the methodology of intellectual history to the early period of the history of the US foreign policy, which created a new model of research.
genesis of foreign policy, intellectual history, historiography, refugee scholars, F. Gilbert.
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