Past as Prologue
American Redemptive Activism and the Developing World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6410831 |
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| Authors | Lewis A Dunn (Hudson Institute, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 612-627 |
| Publication date | 1975-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-8871 • E-ISSN: 1086-3338 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2010017 |
| OpenAlex | W2320857660 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
Packenham's Liberal America and the Third World, although a needed response to more radical critics, does not cut sufficiently deeply into the ambiguities, roots, and patterns of thought of liberal redemptive activism. The problem is to tame rather than to exorcise the redemptive activist belief in a “larger” American interest in the developing world. Modification of the reorientation of American policy articulated by Packenham and the Overseas Development Council is required to: (1) take account of limited agreement upon a conception of global economic equity; (2) develop a more refined response to the excesses of reformist interventionism; (3) avoid the risks of reliance upon a “will and capacity” strategy of developmental assistance. “Proximate pursuit” of the longstanding vision of a world in which the values of liberal democratic order are being increasingly realized constitutes a preferred alternative to both the liberal reorientation and past redemptive activism
Democracy · Environmental ethics · International relations · Interventionism (politics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Prologue · Sociology · World order · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · History · International Development and Aid · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism
| Highly cited | No |
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