Weak Wine for Wimps - Good Medicine for the Sickly: The Case for Collective Security
Abstract
Internationally, Americans seem to feel that not everything that happens is vital or important to them. That means that a Jimmy Carter brand of world order will not sell any more than a strategy such as Kissinger's that ignores the nation's interest in values in foreign policy. With the cold war over and communism discredited, Americans are unlikely to see the world as a zero sum game. Revolutionary change will continue, but the urge to try to manage it or to shape the Third World may be less today after the experiences of the past 40 years, during which the United States' interventions have seemingly made little positive impact. The nation may be slowly realizing that its ability to shape the world unilaterally in its own vision is too expensive and likely to come to naught. The author senses that many Americans believe that domestic inequalities are the root cause of most revolutionary conflicts and that even the victories for which they have claimed credit -- like the end of the cold war -- may have had at least as much to do with efforts and events abroad than with U.S. actions.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 05, 1990
- Accession Number
- ADA437653
Entities
People
- Jim Cason
Organizations
- National War College