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Liberal Leviathan The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order

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ISBN-10: 0691156174

ISBN-13: 9780691156170

Edition: 2012

Authors: G. John Ikenberry

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In the second half of the twentieth century, the United States engaged in the most ambitious and far-reaching liberal order building the world had yet seen. This liberal international order has been one of the most successful in history in providing security and prosperity to more people. But in the last decade, the American-led order has been troubled. Some argue that the Bush administration, with its war on terror, invasion of Iraq, and unilateral orientation, undermined this liberal order. Others argue that we are witnessing the end of the American era.Liberal Leviathanengages these debates.G. John Ikenberry argues that the crisis that besets the American-led order is a crisis of…    
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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 8/26/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.430
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
Crisis of the Old Order
Theoretical Foundations
Power and the Varieties of Order
Power and Strategies of Rule
Unipolarity and Its Consequences
Historical Origins and Trajectories of Change
The Rise of the American System
The Great Transformation and the Failure of Illiberal Hegemony
Dilemmas and Pathways of Liberal International Order
Eight Conclusion: The Durability of Liberal International Order
Index