The hero's journey toward a second American century / Michael E. Salla.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salla, Michael E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Twenty-first century--Forecasts.

Twenty-first century.

National characteristics, American.

Courage--Political aspects--United States--History.

Courage.

Myth--Political aspects--United States--History.

Myth.

Courage--Political aspects--United States.

Myth--Political aspects--United States.

United States--Foreign relations--Philosophy.

United States.

United States--Foreign relations--2001-2009.

United States--Moral conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The hero's journey is a process of (re)discovery of the principles that make up the national identity of a country. These principles must then be applied in the formulation and implementation of foreign policy. For the seventh time in its history, America has discovered a grand synthesis of power and morality in projecting its resources and principles into the global arena. This makes possible a more assertive, moral foreign policy course in responding to a range of foreign policy challenges. Of these challenges, Salla asserts, the most profound in terms of the scale of human suffering around the planet is that concerning violations of the rights of ethnic minorities. Ethnic conflicts and the humanitarian crises and massive human rights violations they generate form a foreign policy challenge that will preoccupy the minds of policy makers for much of the 21st century. NATO's intervention in the Kosovo crisis is the high water mark for America's seventh hero's journey. The intervention sends a decisive signal to all governments that the U.S. and its allies will no longer remain inactive in the face of states attempting to militarily repress the aspirations of their ethnic minorities. This moral interventionism can safely be extended well into the 21st century if policy makers wisely combine the moral principles and foreign policy challenges that make up both the Second American Century and America's (Seventh) Hero's journey. This provocative analysis will be of interest to all scholars, students, and researchers involved with the development of American foreign policy.

Contents:

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1 The Hero's Journey

The Hero's Journey

Jung's Theory of Archetypes

Step 1 in the Hero's Journey-Call to Adventure

Step 2 in the Hero's Journey-Great Remembering

Step 3 in the Hero's Journey-The Return to Society

Step 4 in the Hero's Journey-The Deep Forgetting

2 The Hero's Journey in World Politics

Political Communities and the Hero's Journey

States as Moral Actors

States and the Hero's Journey 3 America's First Hero's Journey (1764-1822)-America as

Beacon of Liberty and Republicanism

America and the Hero's Journey

America's First Hero's Journey (1764-1822)

4 America's Second Hero's Journey (1823-1855)-Rule of

Law and Manifest Destiny

Call to Adventure (1823-1831)-Promoting International

Law

Great Remembering (1831-1837)-The Issues of

Relocation of Native Americans, Slavery, and Texas

The Return to International Society (1837-1845)-Manifest

Destiny

Deep Forgetting (1846-1855)-American Imperialism

5 America's Third Hero's Journey (1855-1891)-Civil War

and the Monroe Doctrine

Call to Adventure (1855-1861)-Ending Slavery as a Moral

Imperative

Great Remembering (1861-1867)-Fighting to Preserve the

Union and Emancipation

The Return to International Society (1867-1875)-

Reasserting the Monroe Doctrine

Deep Forgetting (1875-1889)-Ignoring the Plight of

Indians and Emancipated Slaves

6 America's Fourth Hero's Journey (1889-1912)-America's

Rise to Great Power Status

Call to Adventure (1889-1895)-Reasserting the Monroe

Doctrine

Great Remembering (1895-1898)-Supporting Cuban

Independence

The Return to International Society (1898-1903)-

Commitment to Self-Determination

Deep Forgetting (1903-1912)-Imperial America

7 America's Fifth Hero's Journey (1913-1933)-Making the

World Safe for Democracy

Call to Adventure (1913-1914)-Supporting Democracy in

the Western Hemisphere

Great Remembering (1914-1917)-Supporting European

Democracies The Return to International Society (1917-1919)-Fighting

for Self-Determination, Democracy, and a New World

Order

Deep Forgetting (1919-1933)-Isolationism Triumphant

8 America's Sixth Hero's Journey (1933-1974)-The

Democratic Struggle against Fascism and Communism

Call to Adventure (1933-1939)-Opposing International

Aggression and Supporting Self-Determination

Great Remembering (1939-1941)-From Neutrality to

Nonbelligerency

The Return to International Society (1941-1956)-World

War II and the Cold War

Deep Forgetting (1956-1974)-Ignoring Self-Determination

in the Crusade against Communism

9 America's Seventh Hero's Journey (1974- )-Human

Rights, Humanitarian Intervention, and a New World Order

Call to Adventure (1974-1981)-Human Rights Diplomacy

Great Remembering (1981-1993)-Human Rights and New

World Order

The Return to International Society (1993- )-

Humanitarian Intervention and New World Order

America's Seventh Hero's Journey

10 Renewing America's Seventh Hero's Journey for the Second

American Century

Domestic Policy Imperatives

Foreign Policy Imperatives

Conclusion-America's Seventh Hero's Journey and the Second

Selected Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-217) and index.

ISBN:

9780313075643

0313075646

OCLC:

70752682