Economic Globalization: The View from the Pews
James Guth Monday, 29 November 2010
The rediscovery of religion by international relations scholars has produced growing interest in the way that faith shapes American attitudes on foreign policy. Whatever the exact nexus between citizen opinion and elite decisions, public attitudes do provide a vital context for those choices. In recent years there has been a tidal wave of polemical works asserting the influence of religion on American foreign policy. Most focus on religious conservatives' contribution to attitudes that Eugene Wittkopf famously labeled "militant internationalism." Scholarly studies have confirmed, with numerous qualifications and more nuance, some of these contentions.
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