Patterns of American Foreign and Security Policy
Patterns of American Foreign and Security Policy

Summary/Abstract: At first glance, the basic values of US foreign policy seem confusing and contradictory. Frequently, they have been described in terms of polarizing opposites: for example, geopolitical realism versus universal idealism, or non interventionist isolationism versus interventionist internationalism, or unilateralism versus multilateralism, etc., etc. The following is an attempt to understand, by way of analysis, the basic orientations of US foreign policy in so far as these are a consequence of different patterns of normative selfinterpretation.

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