Title:
American hegemony : political morality in a one-superpower world
Author:
Brilmayer, Lea.
ISBN:
9780300060331
9780300068535
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Publication Information:
New Haven : Yale University Press, c1994.
Physical Description:
xi, 263 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents:
Introduction: The World's Policeman? -- Pt. 1. The Moral Relevance of International Hegemony. 1. Hegemony. 2. Anarchy -- Pt. 2. A Liberal Theory of International Hegemony. 3. Global Liberalism. 4. Contemporaneous Consent. 5. Ex Ante Consent. 6. Hypothetical Consent and the Provision of Public Goods. 7. Substantive Morality. 8. Global Liberalism and the "New World Order" -- Pt. 3. A Critical Response. 9. Statism. 10. Beyond Consent.
Abstract:
Is it morally acceptable for one nation to police the world? Are there circumstances under which one nation has either the right or the obligation to dominate the others? This important and timely book is the first to examine these and other moral issues raised by America's status as the sole world superpower after the end of the Cold War. Brilmayer's book is a brilliant demonstration of the importance of normative evaluation and of the moral problems underlying the enforcement of international law.
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