"The Imperial Republic" based as it is on Raymond Aron's realist
philosophy, is involved only indirectly or by implication in the
disputes about moralism, revisionism, and even imperialism. Its
main aim is to account for the diplomacy of the United States as it
was in a special time period. Like all diplomacy, it can be
explained only within the system of inter-state relations to which
the protagonist belongs.
United States diplomacy during the twenty- eight year period of
1945-73 is examined from strategic, political, and moral stand
points were in diplomats openly declared their aim, and did they
achieve it? Does the result justify accusations either of
incompetence or of imperialism? Does not the reaction within the
United States to a policy which had been a striking success now
induce second thoughts about both the policy and its results? The
imperial republic is trying to throw off its burden; once a
missionary, it has lost the sense of mission; it is still
capitalist, but its spoiled children no longer believe in money; it
was puritan, but its cities abound in sex shops; it regards itself
as scientific, yet mystical and nudist sects are common.
The reader is not asked to endorse Aron's paradoxical
interpretations, but to try to discover the reasons for any
disagreement he may feel regarding differences in political
judgment. People who have acquired the habit of thinking of the
contemporary world in Manichaean terms-in terms of the reduction of
whole populations to slavery by monsters, or in terms of
capitalism, imperialism, or revisionism- may be out raged by a book
that is not concerned with grounds for outrage and in which there
are neither villains nor heroes; but rather with mixed messages by
decent policymakers. At the time of its initial publication "The
Times Literary Supplement" called "The Imperial Republic" "an
important book"no other author does so much." It remains so
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