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Meeting the enemy : American exceptionalism and international law /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Saito, Natsu Taylor
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : New York University Press, [2010]
Series:	Critical America.
Subjects:	United States > Foreign relations. Exceptionalism > United States > History. Manifest Destiny. United States > Territorial expansion. International law.

Table of Contents:

"A distinctly American internationalism"
Saving civilization : the war on terror
Civilizing the other : colonial origins of international law
"A city on a hill" : America as exception
Establishing the republic : first principles and American identity
A manifest destiny : colonizing the continent
American imperial expansion
Making the world safe for democracy
The new world order and American hegemony
Confronting American exceptionalism.