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A Democratic Foreign PolicyThe Indispensable Nation?

A Democratic Foreign Policy: The Indispensable Nation? [Americans have been consistently smug about their political system, capitalist economy, social cohesion, and way of life. They have not for the most part questioned the stability of their political and economic institutions since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Their survival, in contrast to the collapse of so many European democracies, and subsequent robust performance in the postwar era, reaffirmed the view of many Americans that providence had blessed them. They were fulfilling their prophecy as “the city on the hill,” a phrase from the Sermon on the Mount used by Puritan preacher Jonathan Edwards in 1630 to describe the Massachusetts Bay Colony on the eve of its founding. President Kennedy would refer to Edward’s sermon in his first post-election speech, as Ronald Reagan did on the eve of his presidency.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
ISBN
978-3-030-21518-7
Pages
21 –46
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-21519-4_2
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[Americans have been consistently smug about their political system, capitalist economy, social cohesion, and way of life. They have not for the most part questioned the stability of their political and economic institutions since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Their survival, in contrast to the collapse of so many European democracies, and subsequent robust performance in the postwar era, reaffirmed the view of many Americans that providence had blessed them. They were fulfilling their prophecy as “the city on the hill,” a phrase from the Sermon on the Mount used by Puritan preacher Jonathan Edwards in 1630 to describe the Massachusetts Bay Colony on the eve of its founding. President Kennedy would refer to Edward’s sermon in his first post-election speech, as Ronald Reagan did on the eve of his presidency.]

Published: Jul 27, 2019

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