![]() ![]() Michael Corleone is not merely a movie gangster he has become an argument for the realist school of foreign policy thought. The Godfather Doctrine (Princeton University Press), an expanded version of an article they published in National Interest in February of 2008, holds the film as a compelling vision for America’s place in the world in the twenty-first century. Wess Mitchell have now taken this obsession to an extreme extension. The movies run on cable television on a loop, a video game inspired by them has just been released, and the inheritors of the Corleone tradition-Tony Soprano springs to mind-abound in our popular culture. NEARLY FORTY years after Mario Puzo’s The Godfather and Francis Ford Coppola’s film trilogy, Michael Corleone is almost as ubiquitous today as he was then. Princeton University Press, 2009 96 pp $9.95 Ethan Porter reviews The Godfather Doctrine Ethan Porter ▪ April 2, 2009 ![]()
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