American Power and World Order

By:

Christian Reus-Smit

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Hardback

Series:

Themes for the 21st Century

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In recent years American foreign policy has taken a unilateralist turn. Confident of America's economic supremacy and cultural magnetism, the Bush administration has embarked on an ambitious mission to further American interests and reshape global order. In this compelling and insightful book, Christian Reus-Smit offers a sustained critique of the Bush Doctrine and its impact on the United States and the world community. Far from being a realistic response to the challenges of the post-September 11 global order, Reus-Smit contends that the current neo-conservative approach to foreign policy is deeply idealist and naive. He argues that the quest to re-establish US hegemony in the contemporary world is based on a flawed understanding of the nature of power and the complexities of the global system. This has led Washington to pursue policies ill-suited to addressing current sources of global disorder, such as intra-state conflict and transnational violence, inequality, alienation and environmental degradation. If this trend continues, Reus-Smit warns that it will have serious implications for global order and justice in the 21st Century.

Author Biography:

Christian Reus-Smit is Professor and Head of the Department of International Relations in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University. He is author of The Moral Purpose of the State (Princeton, 1999), editor of The Politics of International Law (Cambridge, 2004), co-author of Theories of International Relations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001), and co-editor of Between Sovereignty and Global Governance (Macmillan, 1998).

Release date Australia

March 2nd, 2004

Author

Christian Reus-Smit

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

200

Series

Themes for the 21st Century

Dimensions

142x201x20

ISBN-13

9780745631660

Product ID

2699312

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