Trump’s Foreign Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean Needs a Strategic Reset

Donald Trump’s rise to political prominence was fueled in part by his rejection of the foreign policy orthodoxy that had dominated Washington for decades. For much of the post-Cold War period, American foreign policy was shaped by an interventionist mindset associated with neoconservative thinking. Administrations from both parties embraced ambitious projects that ranged from democracy-promotion and humanitarian interventions to nation-building efforts in distant regions.

Raico, Ekirch, and the Tragedy of American Militarism

In the final chapter of his excellent collection of essays, Classical Liberalism and the Austrian School, Ralph Raico turned to the worthy work of historian Arthur Ekirch to confront a question that should trouble anyone still inclined to think of the United States as a republic of limited government: how did a nation born in revolt against empire become the world’s greatest military machine and sole imperial power?