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Civil War by Other Means
Michael Lind
September/October 1999
Summary: The debates over Kosovo blurred the old divisions between liberals and conservatives, but they did not rise above an even older split in American politics and foreign policy: the enduring divide between a hawkish South and a dovish North. Regional differences based on culture and values have made Greater New England the heartland of opposition to foreign wars and the U.S. military establishment since the 1700s; they have also made the South a bastion of interventionism. All too often, the regional divides over U.S. foreign policy have just been a reprise of the Civil War -- and they are a recipe for paralysis.
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In Defense of Liberal Nationalism
Michael Lind
May/June 1994
Summary: The idea that every nation should have its own state has been the most powerful political force of the past two hundred years. Yet in an age of transnationalism and rising demands for sovereignty, many view secessionist movements as dangerous. U.S. policy harbors a prejudice against nationalism, without distinguishing between benign and malignant strains. Reflexive support for multinational political entities, especially despotic ones, is as misguided as automatically rejecting policies that would create new national homelands. The United States should no longer consider selective support of oppressed minorities as a policy of last resort.
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