A pact with the devil
Subtitle: Washington's bid for world supremacy and the betrayal of the American promise
By: Tony Smith.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780415952453
Subjects: Intellectuals -- United States -- Political activity -- History; Liberalism -- United States -- History; Democracy -- History; Imperialism -- History; United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century; United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001-; United States -- Intellectual life
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The Bush doctrine and the bid for world supremacy; title: The intellectual origins of the Bush doctrine; title: Liberal democratic internationalism : its pre-classical, classic, and hegemonic stages; title: Liberal imperialism and democratic peace theory; title: Democracy as a universal value; title: Militarizing humanitarianism; title: Liberal fundamentalist jihadism.