A Faustian Foreign Policy from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush: Dreams of Perfectibility

A Faustian Foreign Policy from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush: Dreams of Perfectibility
ISBN-10
0521879051
ISBN-13
9780521879057
Category
History
Pages
316
Language
English
Published
2007-12-10
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
Joan Hoff

Description

Professor Joan Hoff's A Faustian Foreign Policy: Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush critiques U.S. foreign policy during this period by showing how moralistic diplomacy has increasingly taken on Faustian overtones. As long as the ideological outcome of the Cold War remained in doubt, there was little reason for presidents or government decision makers to question the unethical aspects of U.S. relations with the rest of the world or the universal and exceptional nature of American values. September 11 allowed the United States to assert its exceptionalism and dominance more unilaterally than ever before.

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