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Article: WHO SPEAKS FOR AMERICA? WHY DEMOCRACY MATTERS IN FOREIGN POLICY.(Review)
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
- Article date:
- March 1, 1999
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WHO SPEAKS FOR AMERICA? WHY DEMOCRACY MATTERS IN FOREIGN POLICY. By ERIC ALTERMAN. Cornell University Press. 224 pp. $25.
Beneath the technocratic jargon and competing claims that obscure so many of today's foreign policy debates, there remains a familiar philosophical divide. Across that divide, two camps of intellectuals quarrel over the degree to which America's international conduct should reflect the nation's values and ideals.
The debate has, in many respects, evolved little since the First World War. Rhetoric once marshaled in support of Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points and later against the moral failings of detente is today, for example, mined ...