THE TWO FACES OF INTERNATIONALISM: PUBLIC ATTITUDES TOWARD AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY IN THE 1 970s -- AND BEYOND?

Cooperative and militant internationalism capture the different views of the American people during the 1970s of the role of the United States in world affairs. The conclusion is derived from an analysis of two comprehensive foreign policy surveys taken in the 1970s. Political philosophy, education, and region of the country are shown to discriminate consistently among respondents' internationalist predispositions. Such evidence of deep cleavages within American society regarding the nation's appropriate world role suggests that a new consensus analogous to the bipartisan internationalist consensus of the Cold War years has yet to be built. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]