ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the neo-Jacobin approach to foreign policy and international affairs. The most prominent and salient feature of this approach is its universalistic and monopolistic claims, which seem indistinguishable from an unrelenting will to power. Allan Bloom was a professor at the University of Chicago, but a large number of American intellectual activists, journalists, and columnists, many of them taught by professors of similar outlook, sound the same theme. The United States and the Western world face huge challenges, including the possible intensification of tensions among the civilizations of the world. The identification of Christianity with democracy was attempted with varying degrees of intensity and intellectual sophistication by a number of well-known individuals, ranging from Novak and Richard John Neuhaus to Margaret Thatcher. This mode of thinking is in marked contrast to the old Christian tradition. The new Jacobins consider thousands of dead and wounded and other devastation an acceptable price for bringing down an abhorrent regime and installing "democracy".
