With or Against the World? - America's Role Among the Nations (Paperback, New)

The events of 9/11, followed by the Bush administration's actions in Afghanistan and Iraq, have fueled a new debate about America's foreign and defense policies in the post-Cold War world. The debate has produced a torrent of books. This book argues that current policy making and reactions to terrorism cannot be understood properly without going back to the roots of America's civil-religious nationalism as well as to the Muslim roots of radical Islamism. After setting that stage in Chapters One and Two, the book goes on in the next three chapters to uncover the political and religious roots of the modern state, a western invention now dominant throughout the world. Chapters Six through Eight focus on the United States-at its founding, in the era of Woodrow Wilson and World War I, and today, post-9/11. The aim here, at the core of the book, is to show how a modest, constitutionally limited state became the carrier of a grandiose, civil-religious, nationalism (city on a hill; redeemer nation; American exceptionalism) that accounts for much of the ambivalence of America's approach to international relations to the present day. Chapter Nine focuses on contemporary questioning of just war doctrine, and Chapter Ten argues for a new priority of international institution building in America's approach to world affairs.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2005
First published:	March 2005
Authors:	James W. Skillen
Dimensions:	227 x 153 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	208
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-7425-3522-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General
LSN:	0-7425-3522-3
Barcode:	9780742535220

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