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Safe Passage - The Transition from British to American Hegemony (Hardcover)
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Safe Passage - The Transition from British to American Hegemony (Hardcover)
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History records only one peaceful transition of hegemonic power:
the passage from British to American dominance of the international
order. What made that transition uniquely cooperative and
nonviolent? Does it offer lessons to guide policy as the United
States faces its own challengers to the order it has enforced since
the 1940s? To answer these questions, Kori Schake explores nine
points of crisis or tension between Britain and the United States,
from the Monroe Doctrine in 1823 to the establishment of the
unequal "special relationship" during World War II. Over this
period, Safe Passage shows, the United States gradually changed the
rules that Britain had established at its imperial height. It was
able to do so peacefully because, during the crucial years, Britain
and the United States came to look alike to each other and
different from other nations. Britain followed America's lead in
becoming more democratic, while the United States, because of its
conquest of the American West, developed an imperial cast of mind.
Until the end of World War II, both countries paid more attention
to their cumulative power relative to other states in the order
than to their individual power relative to each other. The factors
that made the Anglo-American transition peaceful, notably the
convergence in their domestic ideologies, are unlikely to apply in
future transitions, Schake concludes. We are much more likely to
see high-stake standoffs among competing powers attempting to shape
the international order to reflect the starkly different ideologies
that prevail at home.
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