Democratic Realism: An American Foreign Policy for a Unipolar World

By Charles Krauthammer

This landmark and provocative essay dissects the fierce debate over American power in a unipolar world, as Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Charles Krauthammer methodically dismantles isolationism, liberal internationalism, and realism to argue for his own influential doctrine, democratic realism, a framework balancing the will to freedom against the limits of humanitarian intervention, treaties, and international law, delivered at AEI as the prestigious Irving Kristol Lecture and required reading for anyone following American foreign policy and political commentary today.

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 ...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0844713880
• ISBN13: 9780844713885
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: AEI Press
• Length: 21 Pages
• Weight: 4.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"