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Invincible Ignorance in American Foreign Policy: The Triumph of Ideology over Evidence

Invincible Ignorance in American Foreign Policy: The Triumph of Ideology over Evidence

Newman, Robert P.
Gronbeck, Bruce
McKinney, Mitchell S.

Hardcover

Series: Frontiers in Political Communication, Book 26

General ReferenceGeneral Political ScienceInternational Relations

ISBN10: 1433121336
ISBN13: 9781433121333
Publisher: Peter Lang Us
Published: Dec 12 2012
Pages: 192
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book is a review of major post-World War II American foreign policy decisions made by authorities who were blinded by ideology. In each of the nine situations examined, accurate evidence was available and even known to many of the decision makers, but chauvinism, anti-Communism, or willful left-wing or right-wing ideological predilections carried the day. In the preface, Newman takes as his guiding light the words of Corey Robin: The twentieth century, it's said, taught us a simple lesson about politics: of all the motivations for political action, none is as lethal as ideology. The lust for money may be distasteful, the desire for power ignoble, but neither will drive its devotees to the criminal excess of an idea on the march.

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