RYAN LIZZA: I think Obama and his aides have proactively refused to define a doctrine for the reasons suggested by the question.
Abroad, his administration has stepped up its earlier efforts to define a doctrine of "pre-emptive intervention": America will in some cases strike before others strike it.The danger of mass-destruction weapons of any kind makes the doctrine of striking first seem more justifiable not just against al-Qaeda operatives but also, most crucially, against rogue states.
Jean-Claude Jean-Claude Mallete defence review, says it aims to define a "new doctrine" of security and defence.
NATO, which is to define a new doctrine this year, wants to work more closely with the E.U., but of course it would help if Europe first defined what its strategic priorities are.
Dionne says that it's hard to define an Obama doctrine, that Obama is anti-doctrine, but I don't know, seems like it's pretty possible, actually.
Moreover, it is difficult ex post to define a coherent "Sarkozy doctrine" except for opportunism, hyperactivity, and impulsive reactions to the crisis of the day.
The national military strategy synthesizes the White House National Security Strategyy" issued by President Bush, which defined a new doctrine authorizing pre-emptive attacks on hostile states and terrorists who represent potential threats to the United States, especially those who may be amassing unconventional weapons.
For his part, Mr. Obama is a man who tends to live in the moment, reacting to the world's problems while trying to define an emerging Obama doctrine, though it is a phrase the president never utters.
Arguably, Jaspers was always a humanist; certainly, if humanism is defined as a doctrine which seeks to account for the specificity, uniqueness and dignity of human life his work can, from the outset, be seen as a variant on philosophical humanism.
As the United States emerged as a world power, the Monroe Doctrine came to define a recognized sphere of influence.
It's one reason that no one can really define an Obama or Clinton doctrine and why, at times, the administration has frustrated those who would have had it act more forcefully when street protests auguring the Arab Spring swept Iran in 2009 or now, as Syria savagely represses its opposition.
