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Between virtue and power : the persistent moral dilemma of U.S. foreign policy /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kane, John, 1945 April 18-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2008]
Subjects:
United States > Foreign relations.
United States > Foreign relations > Moral and ethical aspects.
United States > Foreign relations > Philosophy.
United States > Territorial expansion.
Imperialism > History.
Virtue > Political aspects > United States > History.
Power (Social sciences) > United States > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Origins and significance of the American mythology
  • Founding a virtuous republic
  • Problems of virtue and power
  • Nonentanglement : the economic dimension
  • Nonentanglement : the political dimension
  • Innocent virtue and the conquest of a continent
  • From imperialism to world peace
  • Woodrow Wilson and the reign of virtue
  • Disillusionment and hope
  • American isolation
  • American virtue and the Soviet challenge
  • Anticommunism and American virtue
  • Cold War ironies
  • Vietnam : virtue stained, power humbled
  • Putting Humpty together again
  • Offended innocence, righteous wrath.