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Under the old classic American isolationism, it was only within the Western Hemisphere that the United States, having expanded territorially nearer home, intervened abroad. Since Pearl Harbour her peacetime involvements (apart from wars in Korea and Vietnam) have been, if only through a far-flung series of treaties, without precedent for her.
A longer version of this essay was published as an article, ‘America and World Order’, in Christianity and Crisis (New York, 8 Dec 1952).
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Gelber, L. (1975). The New American Realism. In: Crisis in the West. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02464-3_4
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