I never got very far with my First Principles of Foreign Policy, but Matt Yglesias offers another:
The great irony of this all is that if there’s one thing the Republican Party does understand really well it’s the psychology and politics of nationalism. They understand it, that is, in terms of U.S. domestic politics. It doesn’t seem to occur to them, however, that these insights might want to be extended to how foreigners — who are, after all, human beings just like Americans — react to things.
To generalize into a principle, one should expect nationalism to define foreigners’ stance on the world stage as much as it’s defined ours in the most nationalist of moments.
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