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

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.

Author: H. W. Brands
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 09/13/1998
Pages: 348
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 8.98h x 5.98w x 0.85d
ISBN13: 9780521639682
ISBN10: 0521639689
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | International Relations | General
- Political Science | History & Theory | General
- History | United States | 20th Century

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