Special Providence American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World

Name: Special Providence American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World
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ISBN: 9780415935364

ISBN-10: 0415935369

ISBN-13: 9780415935364

Edition: 2002

Authors: Walter Russell Mead

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"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…

Book details

List price: $69.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 9/6/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English



Foreword



Introduction



The American Foreign Policy Tradition



The Kaleidoscope of American Foreign Policy



Changing the Paradigms



The Serpent and the Dove: The Hamiltonian Way



The Connecticut Yankee in the Court of King Arthur: Wilsonianism and Its Mission



"Vindicator Only of Her Own": The Jeffersonian Tradition



Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright: The School of Andrew Jackson



The Rise and Retreat of the New World Order



The Future of American Foreign Policy


Afterword


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index