title: Beyond International Relations Theory
abstract: In the post-Cold War world, the most important distinctions among peoples are not ideological, political, or economic.They are cultural. 1 -Samuel Huntington Theories of American foreign policy are somewhat arbitrarily divided into two opposing camps: idealism and realism.Idealism involves constructing a world we hope would exist, such as freedom and democracy sweeping the globe, and then recommending foreign policy prescriptions based on this imaginary world.While realism is more firmly grounde
journal: Humanitas