| ID | 123194 |
| Title Proper | America's default foreign policy |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Merry, Robert W |
| Publication | 2013. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | PRESIDENT OBAMA'S June 13 decision to send light weapons and ammunition to Syrian rebels reflects a fundamental reality in the dialectic of American foreign policy. Within this administration and indeed throughout official Washington, humanitarian interventionism is the inevitable default position for policy makers and political insiders. There is no intellectual counterweight emanating from either party that poses a significant challenge to this powerful idea that America must act to salve the wounds of humanity wherever suffering is intense and prospects for a democratic emergence are even remotely promising. |
| `In' analytical Note | National Interest vol. , No.127; Sep-Oct 2013: p.5-8 |
| Journal Source | National Interest vol. , No.127; Sep-Oct 2013: p.5-8 |
| Key Words | American Foreign Policy ; Humanitarian Interventionism ; America ; Bashar al-Assad ; Syria |