Shielding the republic: Barack Obama and the Jeffersonian Tradition of American foreign policy

Clarke, M; Ricketts, A

Shielding the republic: Barack Obama and the Jeffersonian Tradition of American foreign policy

Clarke, M

Ricketts, A

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Publisher:: TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Diplomacy and Statecraft, 2017, 28, (3), pp. 494-517
Issue Date:: 2017-07-03

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dc.contributor.author	Clarke, M https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1048-9586
dc.contributor.author	Ricketts, A
dc.date.accessioned	2022-10-04T00:00:06Z
dc.date.available	2022-10-04T00:00:06Z
dc.date.issued	2017-07-03
dc.identifier.citation	Diplomacy and Statecraft, 2017, 28, (3), pp. 494-517
dc.identifier.issn	0959-2296
dc.identifier.issn	1557-301X
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/162269
dc.description.abstract	President Barack Obama’s foreign policy has confounded critics from both the left and right in American politics. This analysis argues that this is because Obama’s foreign policy exhibits affinities with the least prominent of the four traditions of American foreign policy identified by Walter Russell Mead: the Jeffersonian tradition. In contrast to the more prominent Wilsonian and Hamiltonian traditions, the Jeffersonian tradition exhibits more introverted tendencies that seek to perfect and protect rather than export the virtues of the Republic. The Jeffersonian understanding of foreign policy is, in Walter Lippman’s phrase, primarily the “shield of the republic.” This analysis tracks the influence and implications of this perspective through examination of the Obama Administration’s approach to two prominent foreign policy challenges after 2008: intervention in Libya and the ongoing Syrian crisis.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
dc.relation.ispartof	Diplomacy and Statecraft
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/09592296.2017.1347448
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dc.subject	1606 Political Science, 2103 Historical Studies
dc.title	Shielding the republic: Barack Obama and the Jeffersonian Tradition of American foreign policy
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Abstract:

President Barack Obama’s foreign policy has confounded critics from both the left and right in American politics. This analysis argues that this is because Obama’s foreign policy exhibits affinities with the least prominent of the four traditions of American foreign policy identified by Walter Russell Mead: the Jeffersonian tradition. In contrast to the more prominent Wilsonian and Hamiltonian traditions, the Jeffersonian tradition exhibits more introverted tendencies that seek to perfect and protect rather than export the virtues of the Republic. The Jeffersonian understanding of foreign policy is, in Walter Lippman’s phrase, primarily the “shield of the republic.” This analysis tracks the influence and implications of this perspective through examination of the Obama Administration’s approach to two prominent foreign policy challenges after 2008: intervention in Libya and the ongoing Syrian crisis.

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