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The Manichean temptation: Moralising rhetoric and the invocation of evil in US foreign policy (2013)
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Kennedy, C. (2013). The Manichean temptation: Moralising rhetoric and the invocation of evil in US foreign policy. International Politics, 50(5), 623-638. https://doi.org/10.1057/ip.2013.26

The United States, Richard Hofstadter once remarked, is a country that has the misfortune not to have an ideology but to be one. In this article, an amendment to Hofstadter's claim is made, suggesting that tied in with the United States's sense of se... Read More about The Manichean temptation: Moralising rhetoric and the invocation of evil in US foreign policy.