Michael Mandelbaum Quotes
American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.
Mandelbaum, Michael. The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World's Government in the 21st Century. PublicAffairs, 2005.
Actually it was the United States which insisted in the veto which required consensus of the great powers of the time. It was Russia which ended up using it far more often than any other nation.
The Republican controlled Senate had turned down the ratification of the League of Nations presented by Democratic President Wilson, and looked like they would turn down any international treaty even if presented by a Republican President. This statement allowed the treaty ratification by only a few votes. However, after that the Senate turned down our participation in the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague. See {640099}.
With Germany’s WWII history of military aggression, even over 60 years later, that country was very cautious about any use of military force and unilateral force was out of the question.
Michael Mandelbaum (born 1946) is the Christian A. Herter professor and director of the American Foreign Policy program at the Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies. He has written 10 books on American foreign policy and edited 12 more. He most recently authored Mission Failure: America and the World in the Post-Cold War Era.
