[DOWNLOAD] "Idealist vs. Realist Foreign Policy" by American Diplomacy ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Idealist vs. Realist Foreign Policy
- Author : American Diplomacy
- Release Date : January 18, 2011
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 49 KB
Description
What we are seeing today in the Arab World is at least partly the result of underlying ambivalence in US foreign policy since World War II. During that period we have vacillated between a "realist" foreign policy that purports to reflect our national interests and an "idealist" policy that purports to reflect our higher values. Changes in administrations, and thus policy, have resulted in a practical, observable ambivalence. The success of any country's foreign policy lies at least partly in its consistency and in the ability of other nations to "read" that policy on a long-term basis. In that regard, an ambivalent policy is absolutely the hardest to read and deal with.