FACES OF INTERNATIONALISM IN A TRANSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT

In the post-Vietnam Cold War environment, two dimensions-cooperative i nternationalism and militant internationalism-came to characterize the foreign policy beliefs of American leaders and the mass public. Altho ugh grounded in Cold War concepts and challenges, evidence from opinio n polls in the transitional period to a post-Cold War world suggests t hat the cooperative and militant faces of internationalism persist. Fu rthermore, because they parallel realism and idealism, as competing or ientations toward global problems, the two dimensions and the fourfold typology of foreign policy beliefs they define may help to understand the intersection of attitudes toward traditional security issues and the welfare issues that may dominate future global and national agenda s. Preliminary evidence is used to probe the argument that hard-liners on national security issues will evince nationalistic and protectioni st sentiments on environmental and trade issues. Contrariwise, accommo dationists on security issues are hypothesized to be semisovereigns on environmental issues and half loafers on trade issues. Internationali sts are most likely to embrace free trade, and isolationists will cont inue to shun U.S. involvement across all security and nonsecurity issu es areas.