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Controversially advocates for a return to liberalism, opposing critics who blame liberal ideology for America's current foreign policy failures~Argues that liberalism offers a powerful critique of US imperialism and military intervention~Traces America's departure from the republican liberal position through major episodes of US history from the past century~Asserts the value of the iso-internationalism that preceded Woodrow Wilson's presidenc...

David C. Hendrickson and Robert W. Tucker examine the contentious debate over the Iraq war and occupation, focusing on the critique that the Bush administration squandered an historic opportunity to reconstruct the Iraqi state because of various critical blunders in planning. Though they conclude that critics have made a number of telling points against the Bush administration's conduct of the Iraq war, they argue that the most serious problem...

That New England might invade Virginia is inconceivable today. But interstate rivalries and the possibility of intersectional war loomed large in the thinking of the Framers who convened in Philadelphia in 1787 to put on paper the ideas that would bind the federal union together. At the end of the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin rejoiced that the document would "astonish our enemies, who are waiting to hear with confidence...that ...

A sequel to "Peace Pact", in which the author identified a 'unionist paradigm' that defined America's political understanding in 1787, this book examines how that paradigm was transformed under the impact of the great wars that followed. It challenges accepted interpretations of America's role in the world.