Foreign Policy Research Institute A Nation Must Think Before it Acts The Age of Liberal Imperialism: Twenty-five Years of a Flawed U.S. Foreign Policy

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The Age of Liberal Imperialism: Twenty-five Years of a Flawed U.S. Foreign Policy

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Abstract

The most common assertion about U.S. foreign policy appearing in scholarly journals and opinion articles is that it is incoherent. This article will show that nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, it is a growing cohesiveness from political science centered around the democratic peace thesis and a growing interdisciplinary consensus that western human rights need to be granted and enforced around that world that has fed into a highly cohesive, highly militarized, foreign policy of what will be defined as Liberal Imperialism.

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