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    STUDIA EUROPAEA - Issue no. 2 / 2009  
         
  Article:   A DIALECTICAL AMERICA.

Authors:  VLAD MUREŞAN.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  We analyze the ambiguous relation between idealism and realism in the United States global policy. The very emergence of America as a nation is saturated with a millennial investment that predetermined all its subsequent intenational discourse. The imperial conversion of this idealism is however exposed and criticized. But we argue that there is no jus gentium conceivable without such idealism. It is only the hypocrisy that must be eliminated, not the values as such. But anyway, it is not pure hypocrisy that explains cynical realism. We argue that no empire ever engaged into global dominance could avoid a dialectical attitude characterized by the mediation ad alternation of the oppositions on the global scene. Apparent incoherence testifies thus for an entirely different logic.

Keywords: America, Manifest Destiny, Idealism / Realism, International Relations
 
         
     
         
         
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