The American Way of Foreign Policy: Ideology, Economics, Democracy

What is distinctively American about American foreign policy? An eminent foreign relations scholar explores this question and its implications.

What is distinctively American about American foreign policy? The American Way of Foreign Policy answers that question by identifying three features of the nation's relations with other countries and tracing their impact from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first.

First, from its beginnings the United States has conducted an unusually ideologi...