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“Foreign policy is the face a nation wears to the world.”¹ In this synthetic way, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., emphasizes the crucial importance of the projection that a state provides of itself to the world. In different periods of history, the face with which America introduced itself on the international stage exhibited different expressions. Indeed, U.S. foreign policy developed on the ground of the contraposition between two important dichotomies: the one between isolationism and interventionism, and the other between unilateralism and multilateralism. In both the Democratic and the Republican Parties, these dichotomies reflect the different positions that can be found…