Title: A pact with the devil : Washington's bid for world supremacy and the betrayal of the American promise /
Authors: Smith, Tony, 1942-
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Intellectuals United States Political activity History.; Liberalism United States History; Democracy History; Imperialism History; Intellectuals Political activity United States History.; United States Foreign relations; United States Foreign relations; United States Intellectual life.; United States Foreign relations
Abstract: With rare courage and devastating insight Tony Smith analyzes how militant liberals--seeking to use American military power to further democratic values--allied themselves with conservative nationalists in a c̀rusade' of war and aggression that betrayed their own principles.
Contents: Introduction : the war of ideas -- The Bush doctrine and the bid for world supremacy -- The intellectual origins of the Bush doctrine -- Liberal democratic internationalism : its pre-classical, classic, and hegemonic stages -- Liberal imperialism I : democratic peace theory -- Liberal imperialism II : democracy as a universal value -- Liberal imperialism III : militarizing humanitarianism -- Liberal fundamentalist jihadism.