ABSTRACT
Americans have a healthy aversion to foreign policy. Liberal internationalism is the foreign policy of the Democratic Party and the religion of the foreign policy elite. It has a peculiar history. Of all the foreign policy schools in America, isolationism has the oldest pedigree, not surprising in the only great power in history to be isolated by two vast oceans. Realism brings us to the third great foreign policy school. Realism recognizes the fundamental fallacy in the whole idea of the international system being modeled on domestic society. And realists do not believe in revolutions in human nature, much less stake their future, and the future of their nation, on them. Hence, the fourth school: democratic globalism. It has, in this decade, rallied the American people to a struggle over values. It seeks to vindicate the American idea by making the spread of democracy, the success of liberty, the ends and means of American foreign policy.
