American Diplomacy

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This paper shows how modern U.S. policy-makers are in part heralding in a new generation of Wilsonian-type international collective security measures but are also pulling back into a type of U.S. isolationism. Although this isolation bears certain similarities to the pre-Wilsonian type - especially in the case of Haiti - it is also showing a greater concern with encouraging other countries (particularly ones with regional security interests) to take a larger part in peace-keeping efforts in their regions. The paper shows that this encouragement is accomplished by a U.S. "pulling back" of financial and military commitments in regions where it has no real security interests and thus constitutes a type of responsible internationalism.

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"Closer to home, the United States has been dealing with the problems in Haiti since the Bush administration. Here, the U.S. has more security interests than in places like Bosnia and East Timor, yet the U.S. has upheld a policy of non-intervention, at least on a military and social/humanitarian level. The active economic policies have been failing miserably. Altogether, this is a good example of Clinton's accusation of "new isolationism" even though it is hardly "new.""

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