Whenever a new American president takes office, or even well beforehand, analysts and academics rush to discern their foreign policy “doctrineâ€â€”a grand theory that connects what might otherwise appear to be a Pollack-like splattering of dots.
The Bush doctrine, for instance, was supposedly about the rejection of multilateral constraints on American power, or maybe it was a willingness to wage pre-emptive war to promote “freedom abroad,†or protect the U.S. homeland; the Obama doctrine, depending on whom you ask, placed a new emphasis on “dignity†at home and around the world, sought to revitalize diplomacy as a tool of American leadership, …read more
Source: European Voice
