http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/us-foreign-policy Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:57:07 -0400 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:57:07 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1246/the-war-lovers-again-what-the-foreign-policy-advisers-of-presidential-candidates-may-tell-us-about-future-us-foreign-policy By Elizabeth Sanders - Evan Thomas's recent book, The War Lovers, chronicles the "monumental turning point" of the U.S. declaration of war against Spain in 1898, and the small circle of men who pressed for war, and for an American empire. The central figures, for Thomas, were Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy; his friend Henry Cabot Lodge, hawkish senator and foreign policy adviser to President McKinley; and William Randolph Hearst, editor of the New York Journal, whose paper did its upmost to fan war fervor in 1897-8. These men were inspired by, and had the strong support of Alfred Thayer Mahan a... Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:00 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1246/the-war-lovers-again-what-the-foreign-policy-advisers-of-presidential-candidates-may-tell-us-about-future-us-foreign-policy http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/112/la-fin-dun-reve-french-newspaper-coverage-of-911 By Joshua C. Feblowitz - In the immediate aftermath of September 11th, the reaction of the French media was one of passionate empathy. The September 12th headline of Le Monde reads simply “Nous sommes tous Américains” (We are all Americans).[1] Yet as early as September 13th, Le Monde began broaching criticism of American policy and scrutinizing the American response. Close readings of this rapidly changing stance reveal French resistance to a dominant US narrative of rigid moral dichotomy. On the whole, the opinions that appeared in Le Monde in the week following 9/11 trace a trajectory from cautious... Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:03 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/112/la-fin-dun-reve-french-newspaper-coverage-of-911 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1285/rethinking-the-premise-of-democracy-promotion By Arthur Goldsmith - U.S. foreign policy exemplifies a broad Wilsonian consensus about the value of democracy promotion. The “forward strategy of freedom,” for example, has been the cornerstone of the Bush administration’s geopolitics, but it was not very many years earlier that President Clinton committed the United States to a policy of “democratic enlargement” aimed at growing the number of democracies in the world. Both Senators Barack Obama and John McCain were sponsors of the ADVANCE Democracy Act of 2005. Even after the debacle in Iraq, there is little dissent from the idea that... Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:00 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1285/rethinking-the-premise-of-democracy-promotion