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American Umpire /
Commentators frequently call the United States an empire: occasionally a benign empire, sometimes an empire in denial, and often a destructive empire. Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman asserts instead that, because of its unusual federal structure, America has performed the role of umpire since 1776, compelli...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. To Compel Acquiescence
- 2. Umpire Attacked
- 3. Another Umpire than Arms
- 4. A Rowboat in the Wake of a Battleship
- 5. Territorial Expansion versus Saltwater Imperialism
- 6. The Open Door and the First International Rules
- 7. War against War
- 8. Up to the Neck and in to the Death
- 9. The Buck Stops Here
- 10. A Coercive Logic
- Conclusion: Good Calls, Bad Calls, and Rules in Flux
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index