Walt, however, exhibits as much disdain for Trump’s bellicosity as he does for the liberal internationalists that he indicts here.

As a longstanding member of the realist school of foreign policy, which has traditionally subordinated considerations about human rights and morality to a balance of power, Walt might be expected to wax enthusiastic about Donald Trump, who has espoused a “principled realism” and condemned the foreign policy establishment. Others, like the foreign policy writer Robert Kagan, may fret about an encroaching jungle invading the gardens of the West Walt’s attitude is to forget about trying to trim it back. Like Edmund Burke, who warned, “I dread our own power and our own ambition I dread our being too much dreaded,” Walt views America’s recurrent bouts of missionary zeal with consternation. Now, in “The Hell of Good Intentions” - the title seems to take aim at the former United Nations ambassador Samantha Power’s impassioned book about the historical failure to prevent genocide, “‘A Problem From Hell’” - Walt denounces America’s pursuit of a “liberal hegemony.”

Mearsheimer published a lengthy essay in The London Review of Books that was called “The Israel Lobby.” It caused an international furor, and an expanded version became a best-selling book. National Interest.” Next, in 2006, he and John J. Bush administration to topple Saddam Hussein, he helped organize an open letter signed by over two dozen international relations scholars that appeared as an advertisement on the New York Times Op-Ed page, declaring “War With Iraq Is Not in the U.S. In September 2002, at a moment when both liberal hawks and neoconservatives were cheering for the George W. Walt, who teaches international relations at Harvard’s Kennedy School and writes a column for Foreign Policy magazine, is no stranger to controversy. THE HELL OF GOOD INTENTIONS America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S.

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