A Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise

ISBN-13: 9780415762465 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014

Tony Smith;?Abar;?Abar

Opis

Despite the overwhelming opposition on the left to the war in Iraq, many prominent liberals supported the war on humanitarian grounds. This text traces the drift in mainstream liberal thinking toward a more militant posture in world affairs with respect to human rights and democracy promotion.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The Bush Doctrine and the Bid for World Supremacy  2. The Intellectual Origins of the Bush Doctrine  3. Liberal Democratic Internationalism: Its Pre-Classical, Classic, and Hegemonic Stages  4. Liberal Imperialism I: Democratic Peace Theory  5. Liberal Imperialism II: Democracy as a Universal Value  6. Liberal Imperialism III: Militarizing Humanitarianism  7. Liberal Fundamentalist Jihadism

O autorze

Tony Smith holds the Cornelia M. Jackson chair in the Political Science department at Tufts University where he has taught for over thirty years. He is the author of five books, including The Pattern of Imperialism (Cambridge, 1981), America's Mission: The U.S. and the Global Struggle for Democracy in the 20th Century (Princeton, 1994), and Foreign Attachments: The Power of Ethnic Groups in the Making of U.S. Foreign Policy (Harvard, 2000).