Why does the United States seek to export its own political and economic system as part of an intervention? We argue that the United States has an ideologically inflected strategic culture which has yielded two “ways” of intervention over time. The limited model is cost-conscious and cedes control over the future of the state to local actors provided that they guarantee open markets and good government. The vindicationist model involves the United States paying costs to remake another society in its own image. We argue that the vindicationist way of intervention is activated by specific types of strategic surprises, which cause policymakers to react by gambling on interventions to remake another society. To empirically investigate this claim, we examine the record of America's major interventions from 1946 to 2005 and present two contrasting case studies of Cold War interventions in Lebanon and the Dominican Republic.

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以美国的形象重塑世界：惊喜、战略文化和美国的干预方式

为什么美国寻求输出自己的政治和经济体系作为干预的一部分？我们认为，美国有一种受意识形态影响的战略文化，随着时间的推移产生了两种干预“方式”。有限的模式是成本意识的，并将对国家未来的控制权交给地方行为者，前提是他们保证开放的市场和良好的政府。辩护主义模式涉及美国支付成本以按照自己的形象重塑另一个社会。我们认为，辩护主义的干预方式是由特定类型的战略意外激活的，这导致政策制定者通过赌博干预来重塑另一个社会。为了实证研究这种说法，我们检查了美国的记录