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Meeting the enemy : American exceptionalism and international law /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Saito, Natsu Taylor
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, ©2010.
Colección:Critical America.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "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.