TY  - BOOK
AU  - BRANDS H W
TI  - What America owes the world: the struggle for the soul of foreign policy
SN  - 0521630312 (hbk.):
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Cambridge, UK
PB  - Cambridge University Press
N2  - "Delineates the debate between the exemplarists and the vindicators as part of what might loosely be called an intellectual history of American foreign policy" from the eighteenth century to date. A single theme pervades the history of American thinking about the world; the United States is seen to have a peculiar role to better the lot of humanity. The exemplarists hold that the US owes the world merely the example of a humane, democratic and prosperous society,and that other nations should be left to resolve their own problems. Conversely, the vindicators contend that America must move beyond mere example and undertake active measures including military might. Both sides have the same objective - the desire to see other regions of the world look more like America - but differ on how this is to be achieved
ER  -