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American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World
Routledge
September 2002
On Sale: September 1, 2002
400 pages
ISBN: 0415935369
EAN: 9780415935364
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Non-Fiction Religion
"God has a special providence for fools, drunks and the
United States of America."--Otto von Bismarck America's response to the September 11 attacks spotlighted
many of the country's longstanding goals on the world stage:
to protect liberty at home, to secure America's economic
interests, to spread democracy in totalitarian regimes and
to vanquish the enemy utterly. One of America's leading foreign policy thinkers, Walter
Russell Mead, argues that these diverse, conflicting
impulses have in fact been the key to the U.S.'s success in
the world. In a sweeping new synthesis, Mead uncovers four
distinct historical patterns in foreign policy, each
exemplified by a towering figure from our past. Wilsonians are moral missionaries, making the world safe for
democracy by creating international watchdogs like the U.N.
Hamiltonians likewise support international engagement, but
their goal is to open foreign markets and expand the
economy. Populist Jacksonians support a strong military, one
that should be used rarely, but then with overwhelming force
to bring the enemy to its knees. Jeffersonians, concerned
primarily with liberty at home, are suspicious of both big
military and large-scale international projects. A striking new vision of America's place in the world,
Special Providence transcends stale debates about realists
vs. idealists and hawks vs. doves to provide a
revolutionary, nuanced, historically-grounded view of
American foreign policy.
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