Republic in Peril
American Empire and the Betrayal of the Liberal Tradition
David C. Hendrickson
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Obama Legacy and Trump Revolution
America, Liberalism, and Empire
Plan of the Work
Chapter I: Liberal Hegemony
Officialdom
Rule Maker, Rule Breaker
Friends and Enemies, Protector and Protected
The Neo-Liberal Economic Order on the Ropes
Who-Whom?
Chapter II: Universal Empire and Westphalian Ruins
Toward Universal Empire
Rome and America
Revolution, Intervention, and the Law of Nations
The American Synthesis
Pluralism and Liberal Internationalism
Realism, Liberalism, and the Legal Order
The Golden Rule
Chapter III: Public Bads in the Illiberal World Order
Freedom of Navigation and East Asia
The Greater Good in the Greater Middle East
Surveillance State, Sanctioning State, and the New Praetorian Elite
The Open Door and Its Enemies
Recovering Liberalism
Chapter IV: Taps for Republican Liberty
Internationalism's Broken Promises
Sacralizing Militarism
The Security Theory of Republican Liberalism
Chapter V: Nation, Union, Empire
The Exceptional Nation
What Kind of Union?
Old Testament, New Testament: Neutrality vs. Collective Defense
Chapter VI: The Renovation of American Foreign Policy
Globalism and Isolationism
A New Internationalism
Return of the Lippmann Gap
The Nixon Precedent
Toward a New Detente
Reconstituting the European Alliance
East Asian Retrenchment
Concert vs. Dominance
Heart of Darkness
Blood and Oil
Israel and the Thrasybulus Syndrome
Conclusion
Short Titles and Select Bibliography
Notes
Index