Interventionism | Interventions for Democracy: An Overview

In January 1993, when President Clinton took office, the job of directing “the world’s only superpower” seemed an easy one. The phrase promised a global Pax Americana: history was at an end, what remained to be done was routine police work. That rosy scenario, however, was soon overtaken by events, and the White House, without a compass for the new world, has found itself lurching from crisis to crisis, changing strategies with each set of map coordinates.

Amid the flurry of policy shifts, high-level contradictions, and official “clarifications,” scant attention...

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