1st Edition
Democracy and American Foreign Policy Reflections on the Legacy of Tocqueville
By Robert Strausz-Hupe
Copyright 1995
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
183 Pages
by
Routledge
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Since World War I, the United States has pursued the defense of Western civilization as a critical element of its own national interest. In his provocative reconsideration of that goal, Robert Strausz-Hupe asks whether the American people can still agree upon and adopt foreign policies consistently devoted to that end. He specifically examines popular and paradoxical attitudes that often... Read more
Introduction; Part I; 1: Alexis de Tocqueville; 2: Tocqueville and Nationalism; 3: Tocqueville and Hedonism; 4: Tocqueville and World Conflict; 5: Tocqueville and Equality; 6: Tocqueville and Marx; Part II; 7: Equality and Egalitarianism; 8: The Hypocrisies of Egalitarianism; 9: Meritocracy; 10: Democracy and Discipline; 11: Bureaucracy; Part III; 12: Foreign Policy and Interest Groups; 13: Idealism versus Realism; 14: The American Diplomatic Establishment; 15: American Attitudes towards Diplomacy; 16: The Military-Industrial Complex; 17: Isolationism and the New World Order; 18: The End of History; 19: The Power of Nationalism; 20: The American National Interest; Part IV; 21: Why the Soviet Union Fell; 22: The Former Soviet Union Today; 23: The Primacy of Europe; 24: Nato; 25: The Middle East; 26: India, China, and the Demographic Revolution; Part V; 27: Towards a Union of the Democracies; Postscript
Biography
Robert Strausz-Hupe
