The desire for recognition: the hostile foreign other in American foreign policy by Liu, Zonghan

“…Drawing on the political-philosophical concept of the “desire for recognition” in the politics of recognition, as proposed by the Princeton political scientist Francis Fukuyama, this article demonstrates how the political ideal of American democracy, with its emphasis on an egalitarian society, contributes to Americans’ sense of exceptionalism and their Manichean outlook that splits the world into opposing spheres of good and evil, as well as forces the United States to construct its foreign policy around the menace of an evil enemy to protect its democratic ideal.…”
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