Undoing the Liberal World Order: Progressive Ideals and Political Realities Since World War II Fink Leon
Undoing the Liberal World Order: Progressive Ideals and Political Realities Since World War II Fink Leon In the decades following World War II, American liberals had a vision for the world. Chastened…
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Undoing the Liberal World Order: Progressive Ideals and Political Realities Since World War II Fink Leon
In the decades following World War II, American liberals had a vision for the world. Chastened in part by the failures of these grand aspirations, in recent years liberals and the Left have retreated from such idealism. Their ambitions would not stop at the water's edge: progressive internationalism, they believed, could help peoples everywhere achieve democracy, prosperity, and freedom.
foreign policy, tracing the tension between liberal aspirations and the political realities that stymie them. Today, as a beleaguered United States confronts a series of crises, does the postwar liberal tradition offer any useful lessons for American engagement with the world?The historian Leon Fink examines key cases of progressive influence on postwar U.S. From the reconstruction of post-Nazi West Germany to the struggle against apartheid, he shows how American liberals joined global allies in