| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Book Review

Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World. By Walter Russell Mead. (New York: Knopf, 2001. xviii, 374 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-375-41230-1.)

Walter Russell Mead scoffs at the contention of sophisticated European realists and their American acolytes that the United States is something of a diplomatic hayseed. Instead, he argues, American foreign policy has played a major part in making the United States the richest and most powerful nation in the history of the world. America's emphasis on economics and democracy, sometimes at the expense of military security and the balance of power, may seem naïve to some, but he thinks it has often been a good policy for the United States given its geographical advantages and its stable democratic system. . . .

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