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America the Virtuous: The Crisis of Democracy and the Q - Paperback NEW Claes Ry
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- Book Title
- America the Virtuous: The Crisis of Democracy and the Quest for
- ISBN
- 9781412813310
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- America the Virtuous: the Crisis of Democracy and the Quest for Empire
- Item Height
- 234 mm
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis INC International Concepts
- Subject
- Politics
- Item Weight
- 340 g
- Item Width
- 156 mm
- Number of Pages
- 236 Pages
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Urged on by a powerful ideological and political movement, George W. Bush committed the United States to a quest for empire. American values and principles were universal, he asserted, and should guide the transformation of the world. Claes Ryn sees this drive for virtuous empire as the triumph of forces that in the last several decades acquired decisive influence in both the American parties, the foreign policy establishment, and the media. Public intellectuals like William Bennett, Charles Krauthammer, William Kristol, Michael Novak, Richard Perle, and Norman Podhoretz argued that the United States was an exceptional nation and should bring democracy, freedom, and capitalism to countries not yet enjoying them. Ryn finds the ideology of American empire strongly reminiscent of the French Jacobinism of the eighteenth century. He describes the drive for armed world hegemony as part of a larger ideological whole that both expresses and aggravates a crisis of democracy and, more generally, of American and Western civilization. America the Virtuous sees the new Jacobinism as symptomatic of America shedding an older sense of the need for restraints on power. Checks provided by the US Constitution have been greatly weakened with the erosion of traditional moral and other culture.
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Publisher
Taylor & Francis INC International Concepts
ISBN-13
9781412813310
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Number of Pages
236 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
America the Virtuous: the Crisis of Democracy and the Quest for Empire
Publication Year
2010
Subject
Politics
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
234 mm
Item Weight
340 g
Item Width
156 mm
Additional Product Features
Editor
Claes G. Ryn
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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