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