DOI

10.2307/3183332

Abstract

The Bush administration has coined a foreign-policy doctrine. President George W. Bush, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, and Secretary of State Colin Powell herald "the new realism." Think you know what they are up to? OK, then fill in the blank: The "new realism" is _______. If you find the blank hard to fill, don’t worry; so would most of today's international-relations scholars. Indeed, one fundamental problem with the Bush administration's new doctrine is that "realism" no longer has any real intellectual coherence.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-2001

Publisher Statement

Copyright © 2001, The FP Group. This article first appeared in Foreign Policy, no. 125 (Jul.-Aug., 2001), 80-82.

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