The Problems with Universalism

Filed under: 2008 elections, Barack Obama, Conservatism, Feature, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, John McCain, Neoconservatism, Particularism, Realism, United States, liberalism — Michael van der Galien, Editor-in-Chief on June 30, 2008 @ 2:46 pm CEST

Gregory Scoblete takes a look at the underlying philosophies of Barack Obama and John McCain re. foreign policy. He concludes that McCain is a Universalist, whereas Obama is a particularist. In this post I will not try to analyze whether Gregory’s assessment of both men is correct; I’ll just deal with the two philosophies and, as the title implies, argue that Universalism has major weaknesses. As I see it, and as I will argue, Universalism is not a good basic philosophy for foreign policy. (more…)

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