| 来源类型 | Op-Ed
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| 规范类型 | 评论
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| The personality of American power |
| Giselle Donnelly
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| 发表日期 | 2019-09-24
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| 出处 | The American Interest
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| 出版年 | 2019
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine and amanuensis in 2016 of the Obama Doctrine—“Don’t do stupid shit!”—recently applied his skills of strategic divination to our current commander-in-chief. He boiled the Trump Doctrine down into a similarly pithy and profane formula: “We’re America, Bitch!”
A more nuanced explication—or inference—of the president’s strategy comes from the Hoover Institution’s Victor Davis Hanson, a classicist and distinguished historian, who has made The Case for Trump at book length. Hanson allowed that “the verdict by mid-2018 was still out” and that “Trump’s first few years were . . . marked by a number of setbacks,” but that the president had scored a win with China, “given that, for the first time in memory, the United States tailed credibly about reexamining the entire asymmetrical trade relationship between Washington and Beijing.”
This “realist” reading of Trump might equally be applied to his predecessor; from the political Left and Right, the two arrived at a similar America-first or, in the argot of political science, “offshore balancing” posture, a prudent tending to the balance of international power. Both administrations saw themselves as redressing the excesses of post-Cold-War hubris, expressed most egregiously in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Ever the hipster intellectual, President Obama’s contribution to a White House show with the cast of the Hamilton musical was a reading of George Washington’s “Farewell,” the 1796 address most remembered for its warning against “entangling” foreign alliances.
Yet, except for the late 1920s and early 1930s, Americans have almost never—and never for very long—thought it wise to turn too much away from world events. The Founders itched for the day, which they believed to be just around the corner, they could muscle their way to the top of the geopolitical pole. The real money quote from Washington’s “Farewell” is: “[T]he period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance . . . when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel.”
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| 主题 | Foreign and Defense Policy
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| 标签 | American history
; foreign policy
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| URL | https://www.aei.org/op-eds/the-personality-of-american-power/
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| 来源智库 | American Enterprise Institute (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/210480
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