After Victory : Institutions, Strategic Restraint, And The Rebuilding Of Order After Major Wars - 01 edition

Ikenberry, G. John : Georgetown University

G. John Ikenberry is Professor of Government and International Affairs at Georgetown University and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He has published widely in the field of international relations and has, most recently, coedited American Democracy Promotion: Impulses, Strategies, and Impacts and The Emerging International Relations of the Asia Pacific Region (forthcoming). He is the author of Reasons of State: Oil Politics and the Capacities of American Government.

"This pathbreaking work is one of the most important studies on international order to appear in many years. It will be required reading for all students and scholars of international relations."

--Choice

"The liberal argument that democratic regimes can make a dramatic difference in world affairs has finally achieved intellectual respectability, as this fine book so convincingly maintains."

--Tony Smith, Foreign Affairs

"An elegant, penetrating study about the creation and maintenance of international order in global society. . . . This pathbreaking work is one of the most important studies on international order to appear in many years. It will be required reading for all students and scholars of international relations."

--Choice

"For the third time in this troubled century and following the end of the Cold War and the tragic events in the former Yugoslavia, the world is challenged to create a stable and enduring world order. In this pathbreaking book, Ikenberry draws upon novel theoretical insights and historical experience to determine what policies and strategies work best as the United States attempts to lead in the struggles to create a new world order. . A major contribution to IR theory and to thinking about international order."

--Robert Gilpin, Princeton University

Princeton University Press Web Site, September, 2001

Preface
Acknowledgments

Chapter ONE The Problem of Order
Chapter TWO Varieties of Order: Balance of Power, Hegemonic, and Constitutional
Chapter THREE An Institutional Theory of Order Formation
Chapter FOUR The Settlement of 1815
Chapter FIVE The Settlement of 1919
Chapter SIX The Settlement of 1945
Chapter SEVEN After the Cold War
Chapter EIGHT Conclusion

Appendix
Index