Volume 41, Number 16 · October 6, 1994
Mission Impossible
By Theodore H. Draper
America's Mission: The United States and the Worldwide Struggle for Democracy in the Twentieth Century
by Tony Smith
Princeton University Press/A Twentieth Century Fund Book, 455 pp., $24.95
America's Mission is a book with a mission. Its aim, for most of its pages, is nothing less than to overthrow the hitherto dominant theory dealing with American foreign affairs and to put in its place a different one. The old theory is said to be 'realism'; the new one, which is more 'idealistic' or 'moralistic,' is called 'liberal democratic internationalism.'
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