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"""God has a special providence for fools, drunks and the United States of America.""--Otto von BismarckAmerica's response to the September 11 attacks spotlighted many of the country's longstanding goals on the world stage: to protect liberty at home, to secure America's economic interests, to spread democracy in totalitarian regimes and to vanquish the enemy utterly.One of America's leading foreign policy thinkers, Walter Russell Mead, argues that these diverse, conflicting impulses have in fact been the key to the U.S.'s success in the world. In a sweeping new synthesis, Mead"@en
"From one of our leading experts on foreign policy, a full-scale reinterpretation of America's dealings'from its earliest days'with the rest of the world. It is Walter Russell Mead's thesis that the United States, by any standard, has had a more successful foreign policy than any of the other great powers that we have faced'and faced down. Beginning as an isolated string of settlements at the edge of the known world, this country'in two centuries'drove the French and the Spanish out of North America; forced Britain, then the world's greatest empire, to respect American interests; dominated coalitions that defeated German and Japanese bids for world power; replaced the tottering British Empire with a more flexible and dynamic global system built on American power; triumphed in the Cold War; and exported its language, culture, currency, and political values throughout the world. Yet despite, and often because of, this success, both Americans and foreigners over the decades have routinely considered American foreign policy to be amateurish and blundering, a political backwater and an intellectual wasteland. Now, in this provocative study, Mead revisits our history to counter these appraisals. He attributes this unprecedented success (as well as recurring problems) to the interplay of four schools of thought, each with deep roots in domestic politics and each characterized by a central focus or concern, that have shaped our foreign policy debates since the American Revolution'the Hamiltonian: the protection of commerce; the Jef- fersonian: the maintenance of our democratic system; the Jacksonian: populist values and military might; and the Wilsonian: moral principle. And he delineates the ways in which they have continually, and for the most part beneficially, informed the intellectual and political bases of our success as a world power. These four schools, says Mead, are as vital today as they were two hundred years ago, and they can and should guide the nation through the challenges ahead. Special Providence is a brilliant analysis, certain to influence the way America thinks about its national past, its future, and the rest of the world."@en
"Chronicles the history of American foreign policy and argues that the United States has had a more successful foreign policy than any of the other great powers the nation has faced."

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"Mei guo wai jiao zheng ce ji qi ru he ying xiang le shi jie"
"Ḥikmat al-tadbīr : al-siyāsah al-khārijīyah al-Amrīkīyah wa-kayfa ghayyarat al-ʻālam = Special providence : American foreign policy and how it changed the world"
"Special Providence American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World"@en
"Special providence American foreign policy and how it changed the world"@en
"Special providence American foreign policy and how it changed the world"
"Meiguo wai jiao zheng ce ji qi ru he ying xiang le shi jie"
"Sous le signe de la providence : comment la diplomatie américaine a changé le monde"
"美國外交政策及其如何影響了世界"
"Special providence american foreign policy and how it changed the world"@en
"Special providence : American foreign policy and how it changed the world"@en
"美囯外交政策及其如何影响了世界"
"Special providence : American foreign policy and how it changed the world"
"美国外交政策及其如何影响了世界"

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