Gullible Superpower: U.S. Support for Bogus Foreign Democratic Movements

by Ted Galen Carpenter

Book Overview

Unlike recent policymakers and opinion-shapers, the first few generations of American leaders made a sharp distinction between the legitimate interests of the republic and foreign causes that purported to seek the overthrow of tyrannical rule and establish democratic systems based on respect for fundamental rights. No one made that distinction more emphatically than Secretary of State John Quincy Adams. In a celebrated Fourth of July address, Adams...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 194442492X
• ISBN13: 9781944424923
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Cato Institute
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.0"