{"product_id":"democracy-and-american-foreign-policy","title":"Democracy and American Foreign Policy","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince World War I, the United States has pursued the defense of Western civilization as a critical element of its own national interest. In his provocative reconsideration of that goal, Robert Strausz-Hupe asks whether the American people can still agree upon and adopt foreign policies consistently devoted to that end. He specifically examines popular and paradoxical attitudes that often undermine Washington's ability to defend American and Western interests, attitudes towards society and the state, politics and government, instruments of foreign policy and the people who wield them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the backdrop for his analysis, Strausz-Hupe employs the wisdom of Alexis de Tocqueville's \u003cem\u003eDemocracy in America, \u003c\/em\u003ereiterating Tocqueville's finding that the driving force of American life is its passion for equality and democracy. To this insight, Strausz-Hupe adds another: When one realizes that domestic politics is the driving force behind foreign policy, one understands why \"the foreign policy of the United States cannot be other than the defense of democracy everywhere.\" Unlike some analysts, however, Strausz-Hupe believes that this proposition states only the problem for American statesmen not the answer. The answer, Strausz-Hupe concludes, lies in a universal federation of democratic states.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an appreciative foreword that examines the evolution of Strausz-Hupe thought, Walter A. McDougall demonstrates that this idealistic vision of a democratic world-state has been the unifying thread in Strausz-Hupe's intellectual career, not the calculating \u003cem\u003eRealpolitik \u003c\/em\u003eso often attributed to him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDemocracy and American Foreign Policy \u003c\/em\u003ewill be of central importance to international relations specialists, policymakers, political scientists, and students of political philosophy. Its chapters include \"Tocqueville and Nationalism\"; \"Tocqueville and Marx\"; \"The Hypocrisies of Egalitarianism\"; \"Foreign Policy and Interest Groups\"; and \"Isolationism and the New World Order.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54256779493720,"sku":"9781138509085","price":71.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781138509085_fea7b49e-4a64-4f01-ab93-a8d5c15fe6d7.jpg?v=1770212748","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/democracy-and-american-foreign-policy","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}