AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.

'The world is my constituency': are liberals rejecting the liberal-internationalist tradition?(THE LEFT)(Essay)

National Review

| November 17, 2008 | Fonte, John | COPYRIGHT 2008 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

'WE are the party of Roosevelt. We are the party of Kennedy," declared Barack Obama in accepting the Democratic nomination. Is that still true? Peter Beinart analyzed the liberal-internationalist tradition in the summer issue of World Affairs, arguing that Wilson and FDR's optimistic vision of liberal internationalism, grounded in collective security and collective peace, confronts a rival Republican vision that he correctly describes as "conservative internationalism" rather than isolationism. The Republican internationalist tradition, from Henry Cabot Lodge to Reagan to McCain (as opposed to the more anti-interventionist Borah-Taft-Paul school), sees the world as a ...

Related articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, and more
Hegemony on the Cheap: liberal internationalism from Wilson to Bush.
Magazine article from: World Policy Journal Dueck, Colin December 22, 2003 700+ words
...tradition of liberal internationalism in foreign...s liberal internationalist tradition. In reality...tradition of liberal internationalism. Of course...long liberal internationalist tradition that runs...
The crisis of liberal internationalism.
Magazine article from: Foreign Policy Hoffman, Stanley March 22, 1995 700+ words
...other great postwar ideology, liberal internationalism, also dying? A recent book by...costs of carrying out a policy of liberal internationalism has waned. Whereas containment...An examination of the plight of liberal internationalism must shift to the flaws and limitations...
Post-Cold War Realism, Liberal Internationalism, and the Third World.
Journal of Asian and African Studies KALU, KELECHI A. May 1, 2001 700+ words
...has been how well realism and liberal internationalism explains or fails to explain security...to assess how well realism and liberal internationalism expla in the behavior of Third...World Accepting that realism and liberal internationalism are inadequate for explaining...
The First Cold Warrior: Harry Truman, Containment, and the Remaking of Liberal...
Magazine article from: Presidential Studies Quarterly Clifford, J. Garry March 1, 2007 700+ words
...Truman, Containment, and the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism. By Elizabeth Edwards Spaulding. Lexington...exemplary architect of Cold War containment and liberal internationalism. The author contends that Truman, far...
The neo-neoconservative: in explaining how his movement went wrong, Francis...
Magazine article from: Washington Monthly Chotiner, Isaac May 1, 2006 700+ words
...argument for a new beginning. Ironically, however, that new beginning looks a lot like an old stand-by: liberal internationalism. Fukuyama's history of neoconservatism is both concise and extremely helpful. Because he is broadly sympathetic...
Thinking anew.(books, arts & manners)(The First Cold Warrior: Harry Truman,...
Magazine article from: National Review Herman, Arthur October 9, 2006 700+ words
The First Cold Warrior: Harry Truman, Containment, and the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism, by Elizabeth Edwards Spalding (University Press of Kentucky, 336pp., $40) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] NAME the American president...
Liberal internationalism, The League of Nations Union, and the mandates system.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History Gorman, Daniel December 1, 2005 700+ words
Dans cet article, nous examinons l'emergence de l'internationalisme liberal en Grande Bretagne apres la Premiere Guerre mondiale. La Bretagne prit une part active dans les organismes internationaux de l'apres-guerre, en partie pour conserver sa position de puissance imperiale. Cette participation
Indochina revisited; the demise of liberal internationalism.
Magazine article from: National Review Roche, John P. May 3, 1985 700+ words
IT HAS BEEN ten years, but the image was etched forever in memory: Graham Martin, a dedicated, proud public servant, a fried who had lost a son in Vietnam, coming out of Saigon in the chopper, the American flag cradled in his lap. Few could appreciate the savage historical irony this photograph
For more facts and information, see all results
©2009 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
About us | FAQs | Contact us | Privacy policy | Terms and conditions
Other Gale sites: Encyclopedia.com | HighBeam Research | Acquire Content | Books & Authors | Goliath | MovieRetriever | Smart QandA