PSCI 131 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: American'S Creed, League Of Nations, Omen
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Week one: american national interests and foreign policy (emily: huntington -- Defining ourselves in opposition to others (britain, europe, russia) The american creed: democracy, limited govt, etc. An idea that we lack identity when we lack a tangible enemy. Particularistic ethnic and commercial interests threaten the pursuit of a unified national interest? . Believed that more recent waves of immigrants were less likely to assimilate. Huntington was a scholar who warned against the dangers of particularism, which he believed threatened the pursuit of a unified national interest. He warned against ethnic interests and commercial diplomacy specifically. Huntington"s ideas about particularism could be categorized as jeffersonian, because he demonstrates his first priority are unified american national interests and that entanglements, in this case internal rather than external, should be avoided when they complicate this unification. Don"t actively roll back soviet control, let them be but don"t let them take any more. Believed that you couldn"t separate laws and moral values.
