Twentieth century world politics saw the United States combine ideological abstractions with balance of power realities.

In his 1994 book Diplomacy, Henry Kissinger wrote about the two dominant strains of American foreign policy: realism as practiced by President Theodore Roosevelt and crusading democratism as ...

Its absence was enough for them to proclaim that there was no revolution (as in Spain in 1936 or Budapest in 1956). So they never criticized Bolshevik anti-democratism, even though unlike Trotsky they ...