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With the end of the cold war, the more traditional aspects of the grand strategy of U.S. foreign affairs--military and diplomatic relations--lost the focus they enjoyed when international relations were grounded in anticommunism. Without the framework of the cold war--the good fight against the evil empire of communism--politicians, scholars, and think tank experts found it more difficult to sell military budgets and internationalist engagement. Lacking an overarching vision of the U.S. role in global affairs--like anticommunism and the closely related commitment to the kind of liberal internationalism first articulated by Woodrow Wilson--U.S. foreign and military policy fell into disarray, outside the new focus on foreign economic policy. FOREIGN POLICY: SHAPING GLOBAL AFFAIRS By Tom Barry FPIF. 02-07-2002
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