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Republic in Peril - American Empire and the Betrayal of the Liberal Tradition (Hardcover)
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Republic in Peril - American Empire and the Betrayal of the Liberal Tradition (Hardcover)
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It has become a staple among critics of American foreign policy to
refer to the United States's approach as "liberal imperialism." By
this they mean that America's globalist agenda and its willingness
to use force in theaters across the globe derives from its desire
to evangelize the gospel of liberalism and thereby extend the reach
of a US-dominated democratic capitalist order. These critics point
to the presidency of Woodrow Wilson and trace how this agenda
evolved over the next century. The dominance of liberal ideology,
they argue, is so all-encompassing that virtually all of the main
variants within the modern US foreign policy tradition, from
anti-communism to neoliberalism to neoconservatism, fit under
liberalism's umbrella. In Republic in Peril, the eminent foreign
policy scholar David C. Hendrickson turns this thesis on its head.
A trenchant critic of America's quest for global dominance,
Hendrickson argues not only that liberalism is not the culprit, but
is in fact where we should turn because it offers a powerful
critique of both militarized interventionism and the US quest for
full-spectrum global dominance. Covering all of the major episodes
of the past century, he shows how the US has fully abandoned a
tradition of republican liberalism that dates back to the Founders.
The republican liberal tradition, which dominated US foreign policy
for over a century, mandated non-intervention and the promotion of
peace. This "golden rule" policy toward other nations served
America well, he contends, and many of the pathologies that plague
US foreign policy now-particularly its disastrous approach to the
Middle East-can be traced to the desertion of the republican
liberal tradition. He therefore advocates returning to the more
collegial form of internationalism ("iso-internationalism") that
preceded Wilsonianism. Combining both a rich historical overview of
modern American foreign policy with a forceful indictment of the
illiberal straitjacket in which US has bound itself, Republic in
Peril provides a genuinely original defense of liberalism in the
service of peaceful non-intervention-a position that contemporary
critics of aggressive liberalism are sure to find surprising.
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