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Idealism without illusions / George Weigel.

By: Weigel, George
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Washington, D.C. : Ethics and Public Policy Center ; Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1994Description: x, 253 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0802807461Other title: U.S. foreign policy in the 1990s | US foreign policy in the 1990sSubject(s): United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989- | International relationsDDC classification: 327.73/009/049 LOC classification: JX1417 | .W43 1994Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-241) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : breaking the realist/idealist logjam -- pt. I. The past is prologue. The revolution of 1989 and the restoration of history -- Death of a heresy : the new Russian revolution -- Who won the Cold War? How? So what? -- Settling accounts : a post-communist political and moral reckoning -- pt. II. The elements of strategy. Lessons from the fifty-five years' war : ideas, passions, and history -- Beyond moralism and realpolitik : notes toward redefining "America's purpose" -- The new colonialism, and other political incorrectness -- Why the new isolationists are wrong -- pt. III. The world and us - five issues. Just war after the Gulf War -- "Humanitarian intervention" : history, strategy, and morality in the Bosnian crisis -- Waiting for Augustine : Islam and the West -- After the Twin Towers attack : terrorism and America -- The new human-rights debate -- Afterword : the responsible superpower.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library 1 West JX1417 .W43 1994 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182800826873

Subtitle on cover: "U.S. foreign policy in the 1990s."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-241) and index.

Introduction : breaking the realist/idealist logjam -- pt. I. The past is prologue. The revolution of 1989 and the restoration of history -- Death of a heresy : the new Russian revolution -- Who won the Cold War? How? So what? -- Settling accounts : a post-communist political and moral reckoning -- pt. II. The elements of strategy. Lessons from the fifty-five years' war : ideas, passions, and history -- Beyond moralism and realpolitik : notes toward redefining "America's purpose" -- The new colonialism, and other political incorrectness -- Why the new isolationists are wrong -- pt. III. The world and us - five issues. Just war after the Gulf War -- "Humanitarian intervention" : history, strategy, and morality in the Bosnian crisis -- Waiting for Augustine : Islam and the West -- After the Twin Towers attack : terrorism and America -- The new human-rights debate -- Afterword : the responsible superpower.

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