Idealism

The Bush administration has embraced a Jacksonian/Wilsonian perspective on the world.  There is an analysis of the contradictions in the resulting strategy for dealing with the world.  See this blog by John Ikenberry. You can find it here, scroll down, date is January 22 for the entry

http://americaabroad.tpmcafe.com/

Comments

[Ben]

I think the front page article about Bush foreign policy in today's Washington Post might be of interest to readers of this blog.

It's by Peter Baker and headlined "The Realities of Exporting Democracy."

Here's a link:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/24/AR2006012401901.html