The New World Order: Enduring Currents in American Foreign Policy

Abstract

The primary focus of this thesis is an attempt to show that President Bush's New World Order reflects enduring currents in U.S. foreign policy. This assessment is undertaken through delineating, examining and evaluating three major schools of thought which have influenced American foreign policy. The three schools are isolationism, realism and idealism. The assessment of these schools of thought is based on an examination of critical writings of leading architects, practitioners and specialists of American foreign policy. The thesis seeks to suggest that these schools are constantly interacting in American politics, and constantly seeking to capture the dynamic of American foreign policy. Thus, the major objective of the thesis is to delineate these schools, indicating their impact on particular American policies, and relating them to the evolution of American thought to date as expressed in the ideals of the New World Order.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA246337

Entities

People

  • James R. Blount

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Foreign Policy
  • Foreign Relations
  • Geography
  • Governments
  • Human Rights
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Political Science
  • Political Theory
  • Public Policy
  • Second World War
  • Social Sciences
  • Sociopolitics
  • Treaties

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Theoretical Analysis.