Pact with the Devil

Tony Smith holds the Cornelia M. Jackson chair in the Political Science department at Tufts University where he has taught for over thirty years. He is the author of five books, including The Pattern of Imperialism (Cambridge, 1981), America's Mission: The U.S. and the Global Struggle for Democracy in the 20th Century (Princeton, 1994), and Foreign Attachments: The Power of Ethnic Groups in the Making of U.S. Foreign Policy (Harvard, 2000).

• Introduction 1. The Bush Doctrine and the Bid for World Supremacy 2. The Intellectual Origins of the Bush Doctrine 3. Liberal Democratic Internationalism: Its Pre-Classical, Classic, and Hegemonic Stages 4. Liberal Imperialism I: Democratic Peace Theory 5. Liberal Imperialism II: Democracy as a Universal Value 6. Liberal Imperialism III: Militarizing Humanitarianism 7. Liberal Fundamentalist Jihadism

"Smith is to be commended for unpacking the linkages among liberal internationalism and neoconservative transformational politics. His is a useful corrective to those who wish to pin blame for the Iraq War on neoconservative cronies pouring poison into the ear of a naive President."-Lane Crothers, Illinois State University"It is rare I am asked to review a book that I think I will dislike but actually ended up rather enjoying. Tony Smith's A Pact with the Devil is his sixth book - and his most interesting. His starting point is the 'certifiably meglomaniac' Bush Doctrine and its 'bid for world supremacy.' But his target is not 'the devil' - the neocons et al - of the title. Rather, it is the 'pact' made with them by various 'neolib scholars, scholar-activists, and activists'. It was these men and women - largely Democrat-leaning - that helped generate 'the intellectual underpinnings' of the Bush doctrine and of the Iraq invasion in particular...Any book written by a liberal scholar containing the line 'it would be a serious mistake to exaggerate the importance of the neoconservatives' deserves a wide readership. If his purpose was to open up, rather than foreclose, debate he has succeeded."-Timothy Lynch, Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London