The Walter Russell Mead FAQ
Back in 2003, people were just discovering Walter Russell Mead and his Special Providence book, and this whole thing either Jacksonians. So...I wrote an FAQ, explaining the whole thing. Which got a LOT of circulation for a little while, then ultimately disappeared after a server crash. A few other people had reposted it, but it eventually disappeared off the net, and I thought it was lost forever. It wasn't lost. I just hadn't looked right. Well, I finally did, found it, and here it is. -‐--- Frequently Asked Questions about Walter Russell Meade's Foreign Policy Spectrum Or What the Hell is a Jacksonian? This isn't actually an FAQ, since I don't have a list of questions, other than the above one. It is, however, a brief discussion of what the various schools of thought are. Intro Walter Russell Meade has postulated an interesting set of definitions for the American political landscape, at least as far as the foreign policy arena goes. Rather than using the tradi...
