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Interventionism

Homeward Bound?

Ivan Eland | Jul 02, 2008
It’s time to rein in America’s crusading zeal and move toward a policy of restraint. We’re suffering from a bad case of foreign-policy overextension, and the only cure is taking a step back to reexamine our global role.

Beyond Left and Right

Alan Tonelson | Dec 01, 1993
Classifications such as interventionist and isolationist, hawk and dove, realist and idealist, and multilateralist and unilateralist do not make much sense in the absence of the Cold War's defining conditions.

Commentary

A Conversation Continued: Interventionism Is Dead

James G. Poulos | Aug 13, 2007
In response to Ivo Daalder and Robert Kagan’s recent Washington Post op-ed ,

Report and Retort: A Response to John Hulsman

Barak M. Seener | Aug 10, 2007
The following is part of an ongoing debate between Barak M. Seener and John C. Hulsman. Seener gets the last word here.

A Troubling Interventionist Consensus

Christopher A. Preble
David Rieff
| Aug 08, 2007
Voters will struggle to find a credible candidate from either of the two major parties willing to make the case for less military intervention. Robert Kagan and Ivo Daalder are satisfied with this. Most Americans should not be.

Blogs

A Responsibility to Protect?

Trevor Thrall | Feb 22, 2012
If Obama decides to intervene in Syria, he will have a hard time selling it to a skeptical American public.

Military-Industrial Complex, APSA Edition, Part II

Christopher A. Preble | Sep 02, 2011
Why restoring fiscal sanity must be the next goal of America's truest believers.

Books & Reviews

America Under the Caesars

Michael Lind | Jun 28, 2010
Anti-interventionists allege our leaders traded a strong, austere republic for a weak and sprawling empire predicated on a military might that could not match our own ambitions. This narrative negates real threats and real victories.

Resisting the Charms of War

Christopher A. Preble | Jun 01, 2005
Andrew J. Bacevich laments American militarism.

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