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Thursday, June 30th, 2011Nation Building and Spreading Democracy One of the most effective and oft used arguments for American intervention abroad is that the United States, or any other democratic state, can enable autocratic or failed regimes to change and adopt democratic institutions. The long run effect of such involvement, so the argument goes, is a more stable [...]
American Foreign Policy: Time for a Change? Part VI
Thursday, June 16th, 2011The Effectiveness of the War on Terror The argument for a great deal of the military adventurism and foreign expenditure in recent years is that it is necessary for America to expend large amounts of wealth and human capital in foreign lands to restructure societies into more liberal democratic regimes to remove the disaffection and [...]
American Foreign Policy: Time for a Change? Part V
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011Bush Doctrine in Historical Context Even though the United States had employed an interventionist foreign policy since the end of World War II, initially as part of the containment policy toward the Soviet Union and its satellite states, the rate of intervention has increased proportionately with its relative global power since the fall of communism [...]
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