Word: internationalistic
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...Cabot was named. In his early years serving in the Senate, Lodge was an isolationist like his forebear, but during World War II, he quit his Senate post to fight in the European theater. By the time he was re-elected to the Senate in 1946, he was an internationalist, convinced that the war had taught "the value of collective security." In the early 1950s, as a leader of the moderate Republican wing, Lodge helped in the drafting of General Dwight Eisenhower for the presidential nomination. But partly because he spent so much time on Ike's campaign, he lost...
...enemy was global Communism, which had to be contained by the threat or use of force from Europe to Korea. Under President Jimmy Carter, Mondale joined in a foreign policy that stressed human rights over anti-Communist ideology. The former Vice President says he is now a "mature internationalist" who would use power as a "last resort" but recognizes, as he put it during last week's debate, that there is still "a proper role for American power in the world...
...doubt, ad hoc centrism is better than none. But it is at best a temporary and incomplete solution to a structural flaw in American politics. In the meantime, until it is corrected, until the liberal internationalist tradition can rebuild itself into a political force, we can look forward to more oscillatory democracy and, to dampen its abrupt left-right swings, more commissions...
While the world awaits its renaissance, there are choices to be made and, for the liberal internationalist, unpleasant ones. On the one hand is a Republican Party that obeys the minimal decencies of the welfare state, but is still alien to its ethic, still nibbling at the edges of civil rights, union power and social welfare. On the other hand is a Democratic Party so embarrassed by any assertion of American power that it meets even the Grenada operation with automatic, almost reflexive opposition (that is, until the opinion polls come out, at which point most Democrats neatly reverse field...
Today the liberal internationalist center is without an economic base (what Big Business, for example, is for the Republicans), without institutional support (except for a wing of labor led by Lane Kirkland), and, now that Henry Jackson is gone, without leadership. With little to hold it together, it will likely fracture along existing political fault lines and disappear into the landscape: those most concerned with domestic policy returning to the Democrats, those most concerned with foreign policy casting their lot with the Republicans...