Providence Abroad.('Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World')

From: National Review | Date: January 28, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World, by Walter Russell Mead (Knopf, 374 pp., $30)

This highly readable history and analysis of American foreign policy offers an answer to a question that was never more pertinent: How has the United States, "with a notoriously erratic and undisciplined foreign policy process, [implemented] foreign policies that have consistently advanced the country toward greater power and wealth than any other power in the history of the world"?

The author, however, has a problem not of his making: Judging from the ...

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