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Article: United States Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century: The Crisis and Renewal of the Republican Empire.
- Article from:
- Journal of Power and Ethics
- Article date:
- July 1, 2000
- Author:
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Abstract
The last decade of the 20th Century has been a consistent record of bi-partisan failure to develop a coherent foreign policy successfully confronting both the unprecedented opportunities and threats of an evolving world in search of a new geopolitical equilibrium. Attempting to exercise global power in an ethical manner, the United States in the latter part of the 1990's has usually accomplished neither. A decade of tentative approaches to global affairs has resulted in the general degradation of America's reputation and power, and a broad spectrum of weakened but still dangerous adversaries are forming new alliances to challenge US military, political ...