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David Hendrickson

President

John Quincy Adams Society

David Hendrickson is the president of the John Quincy Adams Society.

David Hendrickson is also Senior Fellow at The Institute for Peace and Diplomacy and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Colorado College, where he taught from 1983 to 2020. He is the author of eight books, including Peace Pact: The Lost World of the American Founding (2003), Union, Nation, or Empire: The American Debate over International Relations, 1789-1941 (2009), and Republic in Peril: American Empire and the Liberal Tradition (2018). He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University in 1982.

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At the end of its tether: U.S. grand strategy of advancing democracy

By David Hendrickson

June 30, 2022

Key points Over the past several decades, the United States has made the advance of democracy its great purpose in […]

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