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After Victory Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars

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ISBN-10: 0691050910

ISBN-13: 9780691050911

Edition: 2001

Authors: G. John Ikenberry

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The end of the Cold War was a "big bang" reminiscent of earlier moments after major wars, such as the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the end of the World Wars in 1919 and 1945. Here John Ikenberry asks the question, what do states that win wars do with their newfound power and how do they use it to build order? In examining the postwar settlements in modern history, he argues that powerful countries do seek to build stable and cooperative relations, but the type of order that emerges hinges on their ability to make commitments and restrain power. The author explains that only with the spread of democracy in the twentieth century and the innovative use of international…    
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Book details

List price: $48.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 11/5/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.29" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Ikenberry is also a Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Korea. He is the author of After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars (2001), which won the 2002 Schroeder-Jervis Award, and is co-author of Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the 21st Century (2009), The Alliance Constrained: The U.S.- Japan Security Alliance and Regional Multilateralism (2011), edited with Takashi Inoguchi and Yoichiro…    

Preface
Acknowledgments
The Problem of Order
Varieties of Order: Balance of Power, Hegemonic, and Constitutional
An Institutional Theory of Order Formation
The Settlement of 1815
The Settlement of 1919
The Settlement of 1945
After the Cold War
Conclusion
Appendix
Index