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...these debates matter for U.S. policy makers?
To take one hot-button topic: If moderate opposition groups in Iran took power away from the country's current fundamentalist rulers, would they pursue significantly different policies? Specifically, would they terminate Iran's nuclear-weapons program?
In the United States, the response to this question is filtered through four schools of thought. All four seek the same foreign-policy objectives--safety, which is largely a function of the nation's relative power, and comfort in the world, which is largely a function of a country's identity, its values in relation to other countries' values. But each emphasizes these objectives differently. Nationalists and realists give priority to safety and defense; neoconservatives and liberal internationalists give priority to identity and democracy.
The nationalist view is little...
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