7. Noel based Russell M. Walters in part on IOW historian Walter Russell Mead, author of Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World. Mead has his own four-part framework of USA foreign policy, but Clinton-era diplomat James P. Rubin argued in "Santayana Syndrome" (The New Republic, 22 March 2002) that Mead was similarly inconsistent in his own op-ed pieces. (DAMB)
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