The “new testament” defines our actions in geopolitics from roughly 1900 on to the present. “Those first four traditions were founded by our founding generations, late 18th, early 19th century, for a specific purpose: it was to prevent the rest of the world from influencing, shaping, defining what America was to be. Twentieth century new testament traditions are almost the reverse, they were all defined in order to give America the chance of shaping, influencing, defining what the rest of the world is going to be.” McDougall says in his interview with Booknotes. McDougall goes on to splits this “new testament” into: progressive imperialism, Wilsonianism or liberal internationalism, containment, and global meliorism. “These first four traditions were all about being and becoming…these last four traditions are all about doing and relating, and were designed to give America the chance to shape the outside world’s future.” (pg.
The “new testament” defines our actions in geopolitics from roughly 1900 on to the present. “Those first four traditions were founded by our founding generations, late 18th, early 19th century, for a specific purpose: it was to prevent the rest of the world from influencing, shaping, defining what America was to be. Twentieth century new testament traditions are almost the reverse, they were all defined in order to give America the chance of shaping, influencing, defining what the rest of the world is going to be.” McDougall says in his interview with Booknotes. McDougall goes on to splits this “new testament” into: progressive imperialism, Wilsonianism or liberal internationalism, containment, and global meliorism. “These first four traditions were all about being and becoming…these last four traditions are all about doing and relating, and were designed to give America the chance to shape the outside world’s future.” (pg.