Legacies of Cold War Liberalism.

LIBERALISM; WORLD War I; ETHICS; ROSTOW, W.W; BERLIN, Isaiah, 1909-1997

The article talks about the legacies of Cold war liberalism. Topics include before the First World War, to be a liberal typically meant defending universal values and rationalism, liberals had an optimistic view of human nature and believed in historical progress; and intellectuals and policymakers such as W.W. Rostow, and Isaiah Berlin believed that the security of all peoples rested on the willingness of the American state to project democratic ideals and flex its military power abroad.