Values, interests, and American grand strategy

Diplomatic History

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 429-432

  Drezner, Daniel W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 21044438474     PISSN: 01452096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7709.2005.00495.x     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Melvyn P. Leffler, "9/11 and American Foreign Policy," Diplomatic History, this issue, 396.
2. E. H. Carr, The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939 (New York, 1939);
3. Lincoln Bloomfield, "From Ideology to Program to Policy: Tracking the Carter Human Rights Policy," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 2 (January 1982): 1-12;
4. Judith Goldstein, Ideas, Interests, and American Trade Policy (Ithaca, NY, 1993);
5. Judith Goldstein and Robert Keohane, eds., Ideas and Foreign Policy (Ithaca, NY, 1993);
6. Daniel W. Drezner, "Ideas, Bureaucratic Politics, and the Crafting of Foreign Policy," American Journal of Political Science 44 (October 2000): 733-49.
7. I am thinking here of the constructivist paradigm. For the exemplar work in this area, see Alexander Wendt, Social Theory of International Politics (Cambridge, UK, 1999).
8. Goldstein and Keohane, Ideas and Foreign Policy, 13.
9. Walter LaFeber, The American Age, 2nd ed. (New York, 1994), 414-19.
10. See Niall Ferguson, Colossus: The Price of America's Empire (New York, 2004), chap. 2;
11. and Kazuo Kawai, Japan's American Interlude (Chicago, 1967).
12. David Halberstam, War in the Time of Peace (New York, 2001).
13. Kathryn Sikkink, Ideas and Institutions (Ithaca, NY, 1991).
14. See also Goldstein and Keohane, Ideas and Foreign Policy, 20-24.
15. Drezner, "Ideas, Bureaucratic Politics, and the Crafting of Foreign Policy."
16. Bob Woodward, Plan of Attack (New York, 2004);
17. Ron Suskind, The Price of Loyalty (New York, 2004);
18. Richard Clarke, Against All Enemies (New York, 2004).
19. Dana Milbank, "Bush Seeks to Rule the Bureaucracy," Washington Post, 22 November 2004;
20. Elizabeth Bumiller, "In the New Bush Cabinet, Loyalty Trumps Celebrity," New York Times, 22 November 2004.
21. Quotations from "The National Security Strategy of the United States," September 2002, p. 1, available at http:// www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nssall.html.
22. To be fair, the Bush NSS also states in the same paragraph that "We will preserve the peace by building good relations among the great powers." No mention about the regime type of these powers is made.
23. This is a fact that is embraced by even the most diehard neoconservatives. Charles Krauthammer observes, "The danger of democratic globalism is its universalism, its temptation to plant the flag of democracy everywhere. It must learn to say no. And, indeed, it does say no." Krauthammer, "Democratic Realism: An American Foreign Policy for a Unipolar World," 2004 Irving Kristol Lecture, American Enterprise Institute, pp. 15-16.