In this essay, delivered as the Irving Kristol Lecture at the American Enterprise Institute in February 2004, Charles Krauthammer examines four contending schools of American Foreign policy: isolationism, liberal internationalism, realism, and Democratic globalism.
We will support democracy everywhere, but we will commit blood and treasure only in places where there is a strategic necessity_meaning, places central to the larger war against the existential enemy, the enemy that poses a global mortal threat to freedom..
After analyzing the sources and merits of each school, he concludes that a variant of realism and Democratic globalism, which he calls Democratic realism, is best suited to America\'s position of preeminent power and the challenges of confronting and subduing Arab-Islamic fanaticism.
In this essay, delivered as the Irving Kristol Lecture at the American Enterprise Institute in February 2004, Charles Krauthammer examines four contending schools of American Foreign policy: isolationism, liberal internationalism, realism, and Democratic globalism
