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I am currently doing a dissertation on American foreign policy and at the moment I am reading William Appleman Williams The Tragedy of American Diplomacy . In it, he says that US expansionist policies gained support from industrialists and farmers in an effort to "open" and/or "find"...
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I enjoyed this article from the Economist online: http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10278660 It's an interesting discussion of some of the rare international contacts with 19th century Japan prior to Commodore Perry's expedition. To tie it into the Austrian perspective...