Introduction
In this essay I argue that, the Iraq war is not an act of United State’s illiberalism nor is it a product of the a sharply changed American foreign policy. But rather, an adoption of a long-existed political agenda that devoted to spread democratic values globally. I will begin by summarizing the three directions that have been reported by the scholars and thus how the American belief in democratic value unceasingly function as the substantial influence that feed and shaped the American foreign policy.
Desch: The Illiberalism in American Foreign Policy
What created the illiberalism in the current American foreign policy? Desch concedes that, it is the exaggerated celebrations of democratic values encourage this particular alarming …show more content…
Dueck concludes by arguing, “no leader in the U.S is ever entirely freedom the influence of liberal ideas regarding the nature of international affairs, and that Bush’s early realism movement was never whole-hearted either” (Dueck, Pg.35). In short, Dueck thinks that these new policies shown that the American leadership’s aim to maintain America 's predominance via spreading liberal …show more content…
The Administration cannot ignore this primary ideology that formed the nation. In other words, the moral implication in American foreign policy uses this particular indicator to identify its enemy and its allies: "the promotion and selection of specific ideas about grand strategy, especially on the part of leading defense and foreign policy officials seems to be more important than structural pressures in bringing about concrete policy changes"(Dueck, Pg.35). Therefore, it is the American foreign policy’s duty to carry out the diplomatic missions to promote democratic values and fight for what is right and just: “America will lead defending liberty and justice because they are right and true and unchanging for all people everywhere” (Dueck, Pg.31). By the same token, this explains why many liberal supported bush administration’s initiatives from the beginning, because the spreading democracy matches with their social and moral value. The U.S will not prioritize its nation interest above its moral value, but rather more likely to place them on the same scale when it come to terms of
In this essay I argue that, the Iraq war is not an act of United State’s illiberalism nor is it a product of the a sharply changed American foreign policy. But rather, an adoption of a long-existed political agenda that devoted to spread democratic values globally. I will begin by summarizing the three directions that have been reported by the scholars and thus how the American belief in democratic value unceasingly function as the substantial influence that feed and shaped the American foreign policy.
Desch: The Illiberalism in American Foreign Policy
What created the illiberalism in the current American foreign policy? Desch concedes that, it is the exaggerated celebrations of democratic values encourage this particular alarming …show more content…
Dueck concludes by arguing, “no leader in the U.S is ever entirely freedom the influence of liberal ideas regarding the nature of international affairs, and that Bush’s early realism movement was never whole-hearted either” (Dueck, Pg.35). In short, Dueck thinks that these new policies shown that the American leadership’s aim to maintain America 's predominance via spreading liberal …show more content…
The Administration cannot ignore this primary ideology that formed the nation. In other words, the moral implication in American foreign policy uses this particular indicator to identify its enemy and its allies: "the promotion and selection of specific ideas about grand strategy, especially on the part of leading defense and foreign policy officials seems to be more important than structural pressures in bringing about concrete policy changes"(Dueck, Pg.35). Therefore, it is the American foreign policy’s duty to carry out the diplomatic missions to promote democratic values and fight for what is right and just: “America will lead defending liberty and justice because they are right and true and unchanging for all people everywhere” (Dueck, Pg.31). By the same token, this explains why many liberal supported bush administration’s initiatives from the beginning, because the spreading democracy matches with their social and moral value. The U.S will not prioritize its nation interest above its moral value, but rather more likely to place them on the same scale when it come to terms of