By Mauni Michael Jalali, Strategy Bridge: “The post-enlightenment epoch has been the wellspring of grand ambitions for the liberal and democratic states of the West. Seemingly unabated by the failures of Wilsonianism, the collapse of the League of Nations, or the Great Wars, the West did not cease its “restless search for a new way of securing order and peace.” Walter Lippmann, a New Republic intellectual, pronounced in 1915 that America had a stark choice before her, “[either] being the passive victim of international disorder [or] resolving to be an active leader in ending it.” Indeed, America would eventually proceed as the Don Quixote of international affairs, seemingly undoing wrongs and bringing justice to a world fraught with tyranny. However, deeply embedded within the fabric of American political life are conflicting traditions of political thought."
Towards an American Realpolitik: Jacksonian-Jeffersonian Grand Strategy
By Mauni Michael Jalali, Strategy Bridge: “The post-enlightenment epoch has been the wellspring of grand ambitions for the liberal and democratic states of the West. Seemingly unabated by the failures of Wilsonianism, the collapse of the League of Nations, or the Great Wars, the West did not cease its “restless search for a new way of securing order and peace.” Walter Lippmann, a New Republic intellectual, pronounced in 1915 that America had a stark choice before her, “[either] being the passive victim of international disorder [or] resolving to be an active leader in ending it.” Indeed, America would eventually proceed as the Don Quixote of international affairs, seemingly undoing wrongs and bringing justice to a world fraught with tyranny. However, deeply embedded within the fabric of American political life are conflicting traditions of political thought."
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