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Meeting the enemy : American exceptionalism and international law /

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Saito has produced a synthesis that is thought-provoking and challenging, and it provides a welcome attempt to place the contemporary moment in the "war on terror" into a much longer historical frame. Most of all, like all good critical scholarship, scholars and students can look to this b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Saito, Natsu Taylor
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : New York University Press, [2010]
Series:Critical America.
Subjects:
International law.
Manifest Destiny.
Exceptionalism > United States > History.
United States > Territorial expansion.
United States > Foreign relations.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.