The hero's journey toward a second American century
By: Michael E. Salla.
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Twenty-first century -- Forecasts.; National characteristics, American.; Courage -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.; Myth -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.; Courage -- Political aspects -- United States.; Myth -- Political aspects -- United States.; United States -- Foreign relations -- Philosophy.; United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001-; United States -- Moral conditions.
Genres: Forecasts.
Description: "The hero's journey is a process of (re)discovery of the principles that make up the national identity of a country. These principles must then be applied in the formulation and implementation of foreign policy. For the seventh time in its history, America has discovered a "grand synthesis" of power and morality in projecting its resources and principles into the global arena. This makes possible a more assertive, moral foreign policy course in responding to a range of foreign policy challenges.

Of these challenges, Salla asserts, the most profound in terms of the scale of human suffering around the planet is that concerning violations of the rights of ethnic minorities.".

"Ethnic conflicts and the humanitarian crises and massive human rights violations they generate form a foreign policy challenge that will preoccupy the minds of policy makers for much of the 21st century.

NATO's intervention in the Kosovo crisis is the high water mark for America's "seventh hero's journey." The intervention sends a decisive signal to all governments that the U.S. and its allies will no longer remain inactive in the face of states attempting to militarily repress the aspirations of their ethnic minorities. This moral interventionism can safely be extended well into the 21st century if policy makers wisely combine the moral principles and foreign policy challenges that make up both the Second American Century and America's (Seventh) Hero's journey.

This provocative analysis will be of interest to all scholars, students, and researchers involved with the development of American foreign policy."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-217) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I; title: I; title: 1 The Hero's Journey; title: The Hero's Journey; title: Jung's Theory of Archetypes; title: Step 1 in the Hero's Journey-Call to Adventure; title: Step 2 in the Hero's Journey-Great Remembering; title: Step 3 in the Hero's Journey-The Return to Society; title: Step 4 in the Hero's Journey-The Deep Forgetting; title: 2 The Hero's Journey in World Politics; title: Political Communities and the Hero's Journey; title: States as Moral Actors; title: States and the Hero's Journey 3 America's First Hero's Journey (1764-1822)-America as; title: Beacon of Liberty and Republicanism; title: America and the Hero's Journey; title: America's First Hero's Journey (1764-1822); title: 4 America's Second Hero's Journey (1823-1855)-Rule of; title: Law and Manifest Destiny; title: Call to Adventure (1823-1831)-Promoting International; title: Law; title: Great Remembering (1831-1837)-The Issues of; title: Relocation of Native Americans, Slavery, and Texas; title: The Return to International Society (1837-1845)-Manifest; title: Destiny; title: Deep Forgetting (1846-1855)-American Imperialism; title: 5 America's Third Hero's Journey (1855-1891)-Civil War; title: and the Monroe Doctrine; title: Call to Adventure (1855-1861)-Ending Slavery as a Moral; title: Imperative; title: Great Remembering (1861-1867)-Fighting to Preserve the; title: Union and Emancipation; title: The Return to International Society (1867-1875)-; title: Reasserting the Monroe Doctrine; title: Deep Forgetting (1875-1889)-Ignoring the Plight of; title: Indians and Emancipated Slaves; title: 6 America's Fourth Hero's Journey (1889-1912)-America's; title: Rise to Great Power Status; title: Call to Adventure (1889-1895)-Reasserting the Monroe; title: Doctrine; title: Great Remembering (1895-1898)-Supporting Cuban; title: Independence; title: The Return to International Society (1898-1903)-; title: Commitment to Self-Determination; title: Deep Forgetting (1903-1912)-Imperial America; title: 7 America's Fifth Hero's Journey (1913-1933)-Making the; title: World Safe for Democracy; title: Call to Adventure (1913-1914)-Supporting Democracy in; title: the Western Hemisphere; title: Great Remembering (1914-1917)-Supporting European; title: Democracies The Return to International Society (1917-1919)-Fighting; title: for Self-Determination, Democracy, and a New World; title: Order; title: Deep Forgetting (1919-1933)-Isolationism Triumphant; title: 8 America's Sixth Hero's Journey (1933-1974)-The; title: Democratic Struggle against Fascism and Communism; title: Call to Adventure (1933-1939)-Opposing International; title: Aggression and Supporting Self-Determination; title: Great Remembering (1939-1941)-From Neutrality to; title: Nonbelligerency; title: The Return to International Society (1941-1956)-World; title: War II and the Cold War; title: Deep Forgetting (1956-1974)-Ignoring Self-Determination; title: in the Crusade against Communism; title: 9 America's Seventh Hero's Journey (1974- )-Human; title: Rights, Humanitarian Intervention, and a New World Order; title: Call to Adventure (1974-1981)-Human Rights Diplomacy; title: Great Remembering (1981-1993)-Human Rights and New; title: World Order; title: The Return to International Society (1993- )-; title: Humanitarian Intervention and New World Order; title: America's Seventh Hero's Journey; title: 10 Renewing America's Seventh Hero's Journey for the Second; title: American Century; title: Domestic Policy Imperatives; title: Foreign Policy Imperatives; title: Conclusion-America's Seventh Hero's Journey and the Second; title: American Century; title: Selected Bibliography; title: Index.