Books like The Temptation of Innocence - Living in the Age of Entitlement

"Democracy is a spiritual and moral treasure shared by all of humanity and which, in each society, can be a device to hold evil at bay, to prevent the triumph of force and arbitrary power. ... but are the Western democracies still interested in defending rights and freedom beyond their own borders, now that the Cold War is over? Do they have the least ambition to foster civilization, to do anything more than seek their own immediate benefit, at the risk of slowly decaying through inanition? That's the question."