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[15] Gary Dorrien, Imperial Designs: Neoconservatism and the New Pax Americana(New York: Rougledge, 2005), pp. 256-257.

[16] Ole R. Holsti, “American Public Opinion on Foreign Policy, Pre-and Post-September 11”, in Betty Glad, Chris J. Dolan, eds., Striking First: The Preventive War Doctrine and the Reshaping of US Foreign Policy, p.151; Peter Singer, The President of Good & Evil: The Ethics of George W. Bush, p. 209; “Editorial: The Bush Doctrine”, America, Vol. 186, No. 9(March 18, 2002).

[17] Betty Glad, “Can Tyrants be Deterred ”, in Betty Glad, Chris J. Dolan, eds., Striking First: The Preventive War Doctrine and the Reshaping of US Foreign Policy(New York: Palagrave Macmillan, 2004), p.61.

[18] Peter Singer, The President of Good & Evil: The Ethics of George W. Bush, p. 200.

[19] John Newhouse, Imperial America: The Bush Assault on the World Order(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003); Craig R. Eisendrath, Melvin A. Goodman, Bush League Diplomacy: How the Neoconservatives Are Putting the World at Risk, pp. 144-145; 134-135.

[20] Karl E. Meyer, “American Unlimited: The Radical Sources of the Bush Doctrine”, World Policy Journal(Spring 2004), pp. 1-14.

[21] Roger Burbach, Jim Tarbell, Imperial Overstretch: George W. Bush and the Hubris of Empire(New York: Zed Books, 2004), pp.147-148.

[22] Betty Glad, “The Limits of Empire”, in Betty Glad, Chris J. Dolan, eds., Striking First: The Preventive War Doctrine and the Reshaping of US Foreign Policy, p.203.

[23] James Kurth, “Global Threats and American Strategies: From Communism in 1955 to Islamism in 2005”, Orbis, Vol.49, No.4(Fall 2005), pp. 635-636; Donald C.F. Daniel, Peter Dombrowski, and Rodger A. Payne, “The Bush Doctrine is Dead; Long Live the Bush Doctrine?”, Orbis, Vol.49, No.3(Spring 2005), pp.

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