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dc.contributor.authorKane, John
dc.contributor.editorGeorg C Edwards III, Susan A Mathews
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T13:04:50Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T13:04:50Z
dc.date.issued2003
dc.date.modified2009-11-05T06:06:11Z
dc.identifier.issn03604918
dc.identifier.doi10.1046/j.0360-4918.2003.00084.x
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/6360
dc.description.abstractAmerican exceptionalism placed American values at the center of foreign policy, fostering belief in the essential union of American virtue and power. Developing a theme of Henry Kissinger's, this article argues that in Vietnam this union was severed and undermined: America's power was defeated and its virtue assailed. Nixon offered only a pretense of reunion. Carter attempted the real thing by putting universal human rights, not American values, at the heart of foreign policy. His failure was followed by Reagan's denial of sin and reassurance of American values, though the Gulf War of his successor had a deeper impact on the national psyche. Clinton's foreign policy remained subject to the "Vietnam syndrome" and he, despite rhetorical dazzle, developed no new consensus on the disposition of American power. September 11, however, produced a sense of injured innocence in whose defense American power could again be virtuously deployed. The subsequent patriotic surge encouraged George W. Bush to revive American values in foreign policy, with potentially dangerous consequences.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherBlackwell Publishing Inc.
dc.publisher.placeUnited States
dc.publisher.urihttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17415705/2003/33/4
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom772
dc.relation.ispartofpageto800
dc.relation.ispartofedition2003
dc.relation.ispartofissue4
dc.relation.ispartofjournalPresidential Studies Quarterly
dc.relation.ispartofvolume33
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolitical science
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4408
dc.titleAmerican Values or Human Rights? U.S. Foreign Policy and the Fractured Myth of Virtuous Power
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyGriffith Business School, School of Government and International Relations
gro.rights.copyright© 2003 Blackwell Publishing. The definitive version is available at [www.blackwell-synergy.com.]
gro.date.issued2003
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorKane, John


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