| 来源类型 | Article |
| 规范类型 | 评论 |
| An empire for liberty | |
| Thomas Donnelly; William Kristol | |
| 发表日期 | 2017-09-22 |
| 出版年 | 2017 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | To many of those commenting on Donald Trump’s maiden address to the United Nations, especially if otherwise disturbed by the president’s character, his emphasis on state sovereignty was a welcome dose of diplomatic normalcy. For example, David Ignatius of the Washington Post found this theme reassuringly “conventional,” joking that Trump’s base might start to worry that he had been “kidnapped by the black-helicopter crowd.” It was hard to miss Trump’s emphasis: He used the word “sovereignty” more than 20 times in the course of his speech. America’s international success, he argued, “depends on a coalition of strong and independent nations that embrace their sovereignty, to promote security, prosperity, and peace for themselves and for the world.” It was the duty, he said, of states to “respect the rights of every other sovereign nation.” Alas, such intro-to-international-relations “realism” is not a very useful guide to politics and power, especially to American politics and power, and particularly if the goal is to guarantee a global liberal order. Since the end of World War II, the United States has more or less demanded that its allies—beginning with the resurrected Germany and Japan—renounce the principal measure of sovereignty, that is, national self-defense. Moreover, Americans have long subordinated the claims of sovereignty to the higher principle of legitimacy. Indeed, for Americans, while sovereignty of course matters, legitimacy trumps sovereignty. |
| 主题 | Foreign and Defense Policy |
| 标签 | Donald Trump ; founding fathers ; Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies ; sovereignty ; UN General Assembly |
| URL | https://www.aei.org/articles/an-empire-for-liberty/ |
| 来源智库 | American Enterprise Institute (United States) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/262967 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Thomas Donnelly,William Kristol. An empire for liberty. 2017. |
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