ABSTRACT
In the fall of 2005 at the American Political Science Association meetings, a group of prominent international relations scholars announced at two symposia in no uncertain terms that the Bush Doctrine was dead. 1 One speaker asserted that it was “fading away.” Another thought that the threat of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction were “largely overblown” and said he was more worried about global warming. Another declared that he had “zero interest in the Middle East.” The one “conservative” speaker invited to take part in one of the two panels was also critical, saying that a “scaling back [of the Bush Doctrine] is inevitable,” and “has already started.”
