analien and morally redundant entity. Waltz’s structural realism by contrast offered
a far more neutral explanatory device and one that could facilitate an altogether more
measured liberal adjustment to the international sphere.
Notes
1 Kenneth N. Waltz, Man, the State and War: A Theoretical Analysis (New York: Columbia
University Press, 2001).
2 See Daniel Bell, The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000), ch. 13; Daniel J. Boorstin, The Genius
of American Politics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953); Seymour M. Lipset,
Political Man(London: Heinemann, 1960),pp. 403–17; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The
Vital Center: The Politics of Freedom(Cambridge, MA: Riverside, 1961).
3 Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society(Harmondsworth:
Penguin, 1970), p. 9.
4 Quoted in John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, ‘For Conservatives, mission
accomplished’, Sooner Thought, 18 May 2004 , http://www.soonerthought.com/
archives/000672.html (accessed 31 October 2007).
5 Boorstin, The Genius of American Politics, p. 9.
6 Louis Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1955).
7 John P. Diggins, The American Left in the Twentieth Century(New York: Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich, 1973), p. 147. See also John P. Diggins, ‘Knowledge and sorrow: Louis
Hartz’s quarrel with American history’, Political Theory, 16, no. 3 (August 1988),
pp. 355–76.
8 Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America, p. 10.
9 Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America, p. 10.
10 Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America, p. 6.
11 See Rogers M. Smith, ‘Beyond Tocqueville, Myrdal, and Hartz: the multiple traditions
in America’, The American Political Science Review, 87 (3),September 1993), pp. 549–66;
Rogers M. Smith, Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in US History (New Haven,
CT: Yale University Press, 1997); Louisa B. Green, ‘The liberal tradition in American
politics: a slow boat to democracy’, in David F. Ericson and Louisa B. Green (eds), The
Liberal Tradition in American Politics: Reassessing the Legacy of American Liberalism (New
York: Routledge, 1999), pp. 43–66; Desmond King, Making Americans: Immigration, Race,
and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000);
Gary Gerstle, American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century (Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press, 2002).
12 See Henry S. Commager, The Empire of Reason: How Europe Imagined and America Realized
the Enlightenment(London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1978); Peter Gay, The Enlightenment:
An Interpretation, Volume II – The Science of Freedom(London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
1970), pp. 555–67.
13 Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America , p. 306.
14 Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America , p. 286.
15 Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America , p. 285.
16 Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America , p. 309.
17 Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America , p. 294.
18 Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America , p. 293.
19 Waltz, Man, the State and War, p. 117.
20 Waltz, Man, the State and War, p. 113.
21 Waltz, Man, the State and War, p. 110.
22 Waltz, Man, the State and War, p. 122.
23 Waltz, Man, the State and War, p. 231.
24 Waltz, Man, the State and War, p. 233.
48 Waltz and the process of Cold War adjustment