Republic in peril : American empire and the liberal tradition/ David C. Hendrickson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hendrickson, David C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liberalism--United States.

Liberalism.

United States--Foreign relations--1989-.

United States.

International relations.

United States--Military policy.

Military policy.

United States--Military relations.

Military relations.

Diplomatic relations.

Physical Description:

x, 287 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

Summary:

"In Republic in Peril, David C. Hendrickson advances a powerful critique of American policy since the end of the Cold War. America's outsized military spending and global commitments, he shows, undermine rather than uphold international order. They raise rather than reduce the danger of war, imperiling both American security and domestic liberty. An alternative path lies in a new internationalism in tune with the United Nations Charter and the philosophy of republican liberty embraced by America's founders." --Amazon.com.

Contents:

1 Liberal Hegemony 25

Officialdom 25

Rule Maker, Rule Breaker 28

Friends and Enemies, Protector and Protected 32

The Neoliberal Economic Order on the Ropes 39

Who-Whom? 44

2 Universal Empire and Westphalian Ruins 53

Toward Universal Empire 53

Rome and America 60

Revolution, Intervention, and the Law of Nations 66

The American Synthesis 72

Pluralism and Liberal Internationalism 76

Realism, Liberalism, and the Legal Order 82

The Golden Rule 98

3 Public Bads in the Illiberal World Order 105

Freedom of Navigation and East Asia 107

The Greater Good in the Greater Middle East 115

Surveillance State, Sanctioning State, and the New Praetorian Elite 122

The Open Door and Its Enemies 126

Recovering Liberalism 130

4 Taps for Republican Liberty 137

Internationalism's Broken Promises 137

Sacralizing Militarism 140

The Security Theory of Republican Liberalism 144

The Old Testament and Its Rivals 150

5 The Renovation of American Foreign Policy 161

Isolationism and Globalism 161

A New Internationalism 168

Return of the Lippmann Gap 172

The Nixon Precedent 175

Toward a New Détente 178

Reconstituting the European Alliance 181

East Asian Retrenchment 187

Concert versus Dominance 191

Heart of Darkness 193

Blood and Oil 204

Israel and the Thrasybulus Syndrome 206.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780190660383

0190660384

OCLC:

1011211118