foreign policy in the Middle East¯stability at the cost of freedom¯has been no less astonishing. ∺nd in the broader Middle East, we recognize that freedom and democracy are the only ideas that can, over time, lead to just and lasting stability, especially in Afghanistan and Iraq.Īs is well known, the Bush doctrine represents a remarkable about-face for an administration that initially swore off nation-building. Its repudiation of decades of U.S. We recognize that democratic state building is now an urgent component of our national interest, writes Rice. priorities during the Bush administration. Called ∺merican Realism for the New World, it admits the seismic shift in U.S. A restatement of the doctrine, authored by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, appears in the current issue of Foreign Affairs magazine. The Bush doctrine has been pilloried either for its Wilsonian idealism or its Machiavellian realism.
foreign policy loomed as large in a presidential race. Indeed, not since the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 have questions about the American character and U.S. Whatever the merits of its arguments, the books themes seem enduringly relevant. His work, The Machiavellian Moment, was perhaps the most ambitious of its kind to trace the transmission of a cluster of ideas¯including civic virtue, moral decline, and apocalyptic politics¯across the centuries. Pocock shook the academic establishment with a sweeping account of the development of republican political ideals, from Florence in the Renaissance to the American Founding.
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