/lit/ - Literature

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>Iran
> Mithraism / Proto-Indo-European reconstructionsim
>pic related
>Shahnameh

>>15443804
Here's a superb little book I read last year, which denounces liberal democratic pursuits in foreign policy. In sum, these pursuits, including goals such as the spread of human rights, fostering an increasingly globalized economy, and strengthening international institutions, ignore the strength of both the nationalism in weaker states and the nimble realism of stronger states, resulting in a highly militarized but almost always stumbling U.S. foreign policy. Neocons and liberals (I'm shifting to the U.S. definition of political liberals here) alike fail to assimilate the lessons from these various failings and we are left dumping money into strategically unwise plans while at the same time losing influence. In my opinion, each new crisis exposes these faults more and more, leaving liberal democracy look like more of a joke each time.

Reading this right now and he does it everytime.

>>liberal
>>nationalist
>>in the same sentence

If you don't think liberal nationalism or nationalist liberalism exists you need
to level up your international relations knowledge.