Interesting post from Democracy Digest

No adventurism, unilateralism, or isolationism. To regenerate support for advancing democracy as a foreign policy priority, the U.S. needs a fresh narrative that affirms America’s role and taps American pride without resorting to Global Leader and American Exceptionalism rhetoric, argues Bruce W. Jentleson, William Preston Few Professor of Public Policy at Duke University.

While well short of grand strategy, what’s needed is a foreign policy “right-sizing” that fits the realities of the twenty-first century world, he writes for Democracy: A Journal of Ideas:

Americans aren’t turning isolationist: Only 29 percent opted to “stay out of world affairs,” among the lowest percentages in the 45 years the Chicago Council on Global Affairs (CCGA) has been polling this question. But as a recent Center for American Progress (CAP) study found, “traditional language from foreign policy experts about ‘fighting authoritarianism and dictatorship, ‘promoting democracy,’ or ‘working with allies and the international community’ uniformly fell flat.”

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