What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy

ISBN-13: 9780521639682 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 348 str.

H. W. Brands

Opis

For two hundred years, Americans have believed that they have an obligation to improve the lot of humanity, a belief that has consistently shaped U.S. foreign policy. Yet within this consensus, there are two competing schools of thought: the "exemplarist" school (Brands' term) which holds that what America chiefly owes the world is the benign example of a well-functioning democracy, and the "vindicationist" school which argues that force must sometimes supplement a good example. In this book, H.W. Brands traces the evolution of these two schools as they emerged in the thinking and writing of the most important public thinkers of the past two centuries.

Recenzje

'The book is a welcome addition to the literature on the subject.' International Studies

Spis treści

Preface; 1. Exceptionalists all! The first hundred years; 2. Brooks Adams: Marx for imperialists; 3. Walter Lippmann and a new republic for a new era; 4. When the future worked and the trains ran on time: Lincoln Steffens; 5. Dr Beard's garden; 6. Kennan, Morgenthau, and the sources of superpower conduct; 7. Reinhold Niebuhr and the foreign policy of original sin; 8. God blinked, but Herman didn't; 9. On Wisconsin: Madison and points left; 10. The brief of Norman's woe: commentary and the new conservatism; 11. It ain't over till it's over - and not even then.