Chapter Eight. Preventive War and U.S. Foreign Policy

This chapter examines the Bush administration's strategy of “preemption” in the early 2000s. The Bush administration declared that U.S. policy could no longer be based on the principle of deterrence. The nation could not “remain idle while dangers gather.” It had to identify the threat and destroy it “before it reaches our borders” and “take whatever action [was] necessary” to protect itself. The new policy was considered a total break with American tradition and stunned the international community. The chapter brings a historian's perspective to bear on this issue. Has the Bush administration really broken with American tradition in this area by adopting what it calls a “preemptive” strategy? The goal here is to get at the issue by looking at how other American administrations dealt with this kind of problem.

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Bipartisan Foreign Policy: Myth or Reality?Cecil V. Crabb, Jr.The Political Process and Foreign Policy: The Making of the Japanese Settlement.Bernard C. Cohen

The Journal of Politics ◽

10.1017/s0022381600033831 ◽

1958 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

pp. 562-564

Author(s):

Elmer Plischke

Keyword(s):

Foreign Policy ◽

Political Process

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Maxims of Foreign Policy

Itinerario ◽

10.1017/s0165115300044508 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 62-79

Author(s):

W.J. Boot

Keyword(s):

Foreign Policy ◽

Sixteenth Century ◽

Foreign Relations ◽

East Asian ◽

Modern Period ◽

Cultural Sphere ◽

Japanese Identity

In the pre-modern period, Japanese identity was articulated in contrast with China. It was, however, articulated in reference to criteria that were commonly accepted in the whole East-Asian cultural sphere; criteria, therefore, that were Chinese in origin.One of the fields in which Japan's conception of a Japanese identity was enacted was that of foreign relations, i.e. of Japan's relations with China, the various kingdoms in Korea, and from the second half of the sixteenth century onwards, with the Portuguese, Spaniards, Dutchmen, and the Kingdom of the Ryūkū.

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