Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World
Description
"God has a special providence for fools, drunks and the United States of America."--Otto von BismarckAmerica'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 ...
ISBN(s)
0415935369, 9780415935364
