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Imperialist Realism
Imperialist Realism explores how Americans have come to accept their global empire not because they believe in its righteousness but because they believe no alternative to U.S. hegemony is possible.
Cold War Liberalism
Power in a Time of Emergency In the mid-twentieth century, Cold War liberalism exerted a profound influence on the US …
Faith and Fear: America’s Relationship with War Since 1945
In this groundbreaking reflection on America’s relationship with war in the modern era, Gregory A. Daddis explores the deep-seated tension …
War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States, and the War on Terror
Since Kenya’s invasion of Somalia in 2011, the Kenyan state has been engaged in direct combat with the Somali militant …
Rethinking U.S. World Power: Domestic Histories of U.S. Foreign Relations
Since the late-1990s, diplomatic historians have emphasized the importance of international and transnational processes, flows, and events to the history …
Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times
By the middle of the twentieth century, many liberals looked glumly at the world modernity had brought about, with its …
Rebooting Global International Society: Change, Contestation and Resilience (Governance, Security and Development)
This book asks if it is time to “reboot” the fundamental institutions of global international society. The volume revisits Hedley …
On Shedding an Obsolete Past: Bidding Farewell to the American Century
On Shedding an Obsolete Past provides a much-needed and comprehensive critique of recent US national security policies in both the Trump …
The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War: Charting the Rise and Fall of U.S. Military Emissions
How the Pentagon became the world’s largest single greenhouse gas emitter and why it’s not too late to break the …
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War
A prominent historian exposes the dark side of making war more humane. In the years since 9/11, we have entered …
After the Apocalypse: America’s Role in a World Transformed
The purpose of U.S. foreign policy is, at least theoretically, to keep Americans safe. Yet as we confront a radically …
