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The hell of good intentions: America's foreign policy elite and the decline of U.S. primacy

机译：善意的地狱：美国的外交政策精英和美国的首要地位下降

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It is telling that two of America's leading realist thinkers decided to write books on the same topic at more or less the same time. Telling, too, that they make a similar, even complementary, set of arguments. To be sure, the books do take different approaches— John Mearsheimer is more concerned with how liberalism's flawed theories have encouraged flawed foreign policies, Stephen Walt with how Washington's liberal foreign policy elite (the 'blob') consistently reproduces bad policy. But the similarities are striking. Both argue that successive US administrations squandered opportunities presented by the end of the Cold War by pursuing liberal hegemony as a grand strategy and ignoring the lessons of realism. Both maintain that liberal hegemony is fundamentally flawed as a concept and gave rise to equally flawed foreign policy. Both insist that America has paid a high price and is less secure because of its pursuit of it. Both call for a return to realist foreign policy characterized by 'restraint' for Mearsheimer (p. 217) and 'off-shore balancing' for Walt (p. 255ff). And both agree that the Trump presidency might signal the end of liberal hegemony as grand strategy—though Mearsheimer doubts this and Walt doubts whether the alternative is better, though he does see 'America first' as an important correction to past liberal excesses.
机译：这说明美国的两个主要的现实主义思想家决定或多或少同时写同一主题的书。也告诉他们，他们提出了一组相似甚至互补的论点。可以肯定的是，这些书确实采取了不同的方法-约翰·米尔斯海默（John Mearsheimer）更关注自由主义的有缺陷的理论如何鼓励有缺陷的外交政策，斯蒂芬·沃尔特（Stephen Walt）则关注华盛顿的自由主义外交政策精英（“ blob”）如何一贯地复制坏政策。但是相似之处令人震惊。双方都认为，历届美国政府都将自由主义霸权视为大战略，而忽视了现实主义的教训，从而浪费了冷战结束时带来的机遇。双方都认为，自由主义霸权从根本上来说是一个缺陷，并导致了同样有缺陷的外交政策。双方都坚持认为，美国付出了高昂的代价，并且由于追求它而没有那么安全。两者都呼吁恢复现实主义的外交政策，其特点是对米尔斯海默（Mearsheimer）进行“限制”（p。217），对沃尔特（palt）进行“离岸平衡”（p。255ff）。双方都认为，特朗普当选总统可能预示着自由主义霸权的终结是大战略，尽管米尔斯海默对此表示怀疑，而沃尔特则怀疑替代方案是否更好，尽管他确实认为“美国优先”是对过去自由主义过度的重要修正。

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    《International Affairs》 |2019年第5期|1199-1201|共3页
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    Alex J. Bellamy;

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    The University of Queensland Australia;

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