America's Default Foreign Policy

America's Default Foreign Policy

Mini Teaser: Humanitarian interventions have become the reflex position in Washington. But the American public is more nationalistic and more skeptical of foreign do-goodery. Could a reckoning be at hand?

by Author(s): Robert W. Merry

Robert W. Merry, author of several books on American history and foreign policy, is the outgoing editor of The National Interest.

Image: Pullquote: Why is today’s foreign-policy discourse so bereft of any serious intellectual counterforce to the prevailing humanitarian ethos?Essay Types: The Realist