The Bush Doctrine

LaFeber, Walter

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“…It has been invoked by latter-day interpreters, from Woodrow Wilson to Ronald Reagan, to convince the American people of their obligation to forsake splendid isolation and engage the world, in order that they might spread their blessings as far as they (and their power) could reach. 21 This exceptionalist sentiment is evident in Elshtain's repeated assertion that America must step into the world, ready to use force if necessary, for the good of the world.…”

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Jean Bethke Elshtain's Just War Against Terror: A Tale of Two Cities

O’Driscoll

2007

International Relations

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Jean Bethke's Elshtain's Just War Against Terror provoked a heated response upon its publication in 2003. The book aroused controversy by the manner in which it drew upon Augustinian just war thought as a source of support for the US-led `War on Terror'. Many scholars were especially aggrieved by Professor Elshtain's backing for the Bush administration and, in the later 2004 edition, the invasion of Iraq. This article questions the tension between Professor Elshtain's Augustinian political theology and her willingness to countenance a far-reaching jus ad bellum which would allow powerful states like the US greater licence to wage humanitarian wars. By way of conclusion, a critique of Professor Elshtain's conception of the just war tradition is offered.

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Jean Bethke Elshtain's Just War Against Terror: A Tale of Two Cities

O’Driscoll

2007

International Relations

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“…made both the military and the public relations jobs easier." 17 Targeting states which are vulnerable to conventional military forces was also reassuring to the American people that the Administration had the means to protect them against this new threat. For Bush, however, the logic linking the two was compelling and simple.…”

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A Doctrine Worthy of the Name?: George W. Bush and the Limits of Pre-Emption, Pre-Eminance, and Unilateralism

Dunn¹

2006

Diplomacy & Statecraft

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“… 7 George W. Bush had already laid out the Bush Doctrine in his annual address in January 2002 in his commencement speech at West Point in July of the same year (LaFeber, 2002: 543–558; Buckley and Singh, 2006; Rigstad, 2009: 377–398).…”

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“… 8 When Clinton was asked by a newscaster on CNN what the ‘Clinton Doctrine’ was in his mind, he responded by mentioning the necessity to stop genocide and ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Kosovo and building a ‘world community’ (LaFeber, 2002: 543).…”

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Deconstructing the ‘Yoshida Doctrine’

Hoshiro

2022

Japanese Journal of Political Science

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There is a consensus that the post-war Japanese foreign policy is based on the Yoshida Doctrine or Yoshida Line, which refers to the strategies of former Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida, who relied upon US military security, and maintained limited defense forces while focusing on economic recovery and growth. This paper reconsidered the Yoshida Doctrine, referencing multiple related arguments and evidence, reaching a conclusion that post-war Japanese foreign policy should not be called the Yoshida Doctrine or Yoshida Line. The Yoshida Doctrine is an analytical concept created by researchers in the 1980s to justify Japanese foreign policy. This was done in response to the domestic and foreign criticism of low-level military spending, despite the flourishing economy. The Yoshida Doctrine differs from other foreign policy doctrines and has no merit for being called a doctrine. Furthermore, the ideas supporting this doctrine are not based on definitive proof; rather, they merely represent Yoshida's image, and a spurious correlation, drawn between limited defense spending and high-economic growth. The analysis carried out in this study reveals that the Yoshida Doctrine is fundamentally flawed. As a result, this study insists that it is necessary to abandon the Yoshida Doctrine as a base for future research on Japanese diplomacy.

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The Bush Doctrine

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Jean Bethke Elshtain's Just War Against Terror: A Tale of Two Cities

Jean Bethke Elshtain's Just War Against Terror: A Tale of Two Cities

A Doctrine Worthy of the Name?: George W. Bush and the Limits of Pre-Emption, Pre-Eminance, and Unilateralism

Deconstructing the ‘Yoshida Doctrine’

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