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

Publication Data

• Title Between virtue and power : the persistent moral dilemma of U.S. foreign policy
• Author John Kane
• Publisher Yale University Press
• Publication date 2008
• Publication location New Haven, Conn.
• Language English

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.

Topics

• Imperialism :: History
• Power (Social sciences) :: United States :: History
• Virtue :: Political aspects :: United States :: History
• United States :: Foreign relations :: Moral and ethical aspects
• United States :: Foreign relations :: Philosophy
• United States :: Foreign relations
• United States :: Territorial expansion
• United States

Between virtue and power : the persistent moral dilemma of U.S. foreign policy by John Kane. ISBN 9780300137125. Published by Yale University Press in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.