George W. Bush, Idealist

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4037166
AutoresMichael J Mazarr (0009-0002-5768-7344, Georgetown University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2003
Volumen79
Número3
Páginas503-522
Fecha de publicación2003-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Affairs (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346
EditorialOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/1468-2346.00319
OpenAlexW2065331732
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11

There is much anger and confused grumbling these days outside the United States—and in Europe in particular—about the character of the Bush administration's foreign policy. Perceived American unilateralism is raising hackles and questions. This article contends that current trends in US foreign policy can be better understood by realizing that many senior Bush administration officials are not ‘realists’, at least as that philosophy of world politics is classically understood. Many of the resulting views—that, for example, threats to security often originate in ideology rather than material strength—are demonstrably correct and even hopeful in their faith in long-term historical trends. But there may be no getting around the essential contradictions required of US foreign policy in an age when America is the leading power, when a new global community of trading democracies is emerging, and yet when a number of distinctly old-style threats to the peace remain very much in evidence. Washington could do more to smooth the edges of those contradictions in order to point up the idealism and hopefulness of US policy

Administration (probate law) · Alliance · Epistemology · Faith · Foreign policy · Idealism · Ideology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · Unilateralism · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Philosophy