CLOSING THE 'LIPPMANN GAP' AND THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN GRAND STRATEGY

摘要

These two books reach dramatically different conclusions, but both authors start from similar premises. David Hendrickson is deeply rooted in what one might call the Old Testament in American foreign policy: as the American founders established it, with a heavy emphasis on neutrality and nonintervention in foreign conflicts-that is, restraint. Hal Brands is no less rooted in what one might call the New Testament in American grand strategy: as practiced from the Cold War to the present, and focused on preserving the post-World War Ⅱ, American-led liberal international order, which he sees as dependent on continued American primacy.