President Trump's abandonment of democracy promotion and human rights is among the most striking of his departures from the post-Cold War American foreign-policy consensus.
To the despair and fury of liberal internationalists and neoconservatives alike, Mr. Trump often appears determined to conduct American diplomacy as if human rights abroad were not a concern.
It isn't hard to see why: Efforts to base America's foreign policy on human rights and democracy hadn't been yielding their desired results for some time.
Think back to 2011, when President Obama knew where the arc of history was headed and planned to steer American policy accordingly.
Americans still believed in human rights and democracy, but they had lost confidence in the ability of policy experts to advance these principles effectively on the world stage.
While the mix of overreach and underthink that characterized both parties' Wilsonian foreign-policy consensus has been rightly repudiated, American foreign policy can't operate without a moral component.
U.S. denunciations of human-rights violations in countries like China, Venezuela and Iran ring hollow unless Americans are seen to honor the standards we demand of others.
https://outline.com/2XcgXw
To the despair and fury of liberal internationalists and neoconservatives alike, Mr. Trump often appears determined to conduct American diplomacy as if human rights abroad were not a concern.
It isn't hard to see why: Efforts to base America's foreign policy on human rights and democracy hadn't been yielding their desired results for some time.
Think back to 2011, when President Obama knew where the arc of history was headed and planned to steer American policy accordingly.
Americans still believed in human rights and democracy, but they had lost confidence in the ability of policy experts to advance these principles effectively on the world stage.
While the mix of overreach and underthink that characterized both parties' Wilsonian foreign-policy consensus has been rightly repudiated, American foreign policy can't operate without a moral component.
U.S. denunciations of human-rights violations in countries like China, Venezuela and Iran ring hollow unless Americans are seen to honor the standards we demand of others.
https://outline.com/2XcgXw
No comments:
Post a Comment