02138nam a22002177a 4500 20211129144704.0 211129b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0375412301 AL 23 327.73 MEAS Walter Russell Mead 10990 Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World New York A Century Foundation Book 2001 xviii,374 p. HB 24x16 cm. "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. International Relation 10986 American Foreign Policy 10987 Political Science 10988 READ (Walter Russell) 10989 ddc GF 220829 220829 0 0 ddc 0 0 PS AL AL 2013-03-24 0 327.73 MEAS GF03403 2021-11-29 00:00:00 2021-11-29 GF