To Lead the World: American Strategy after the Bush Doctrine

318 Pages·2008·0.89 MB·English

by  Melvyn P. Leffler

to lead the world
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edited by melvyn p. leffler and jeffrey w. legro
TO LEAD THE WORLD
American Strategy after the
Bush Doctrine
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2008
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To lead the world : American strategy after the Bush
doctrine / edited by Melvyn P. Leffl er and Jeffrey W. Legro.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-19-533098-4; 978-0-19-536941-0 (pbk.)
1. United States—Foreign relations—2001– —Philosophy.
2. National security—United States. 3. Security, International.
4. World politics—21st century. 5. Bush, George W. (George Walker),
1946– —Political and social views.
6. Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946– —Infl uence.
I. Leffl er, Melvyn P., 1945– II. Legro, Jeffrey.
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for
John Arthur,
(1946–2007)
friend, teacher, philosopher
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Bonnie, Sherrie, and Rick Legro,
extraordinary siblings
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Acknowledgments
The Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia
provided generous support and funding for this project. In par-
ticular, we would like to thank Gerald L. Baliles, the director of
the Miller Center, and J. Michael Mullen, assistant director. Our cochairs
in the Governing America in a Global Era program, Sid Milkis and Brian
Balogh, offered superb advice whenever we encountered diffi cult issues.
To facilitate an exchange of ideas on the future of U.S. national security
strategy, the Miller Center hosted a two-day workshop titled “After the Bush
Doctrine: National Security Strategy for a New Administration” on June 7–8,
2007. The event required tremendous effort on the part of our extraordinarily
talented Miller Center colleagues and support staff, especially Chi Lam. Our
thanks to them and to John Owen for their contributions to the workshop.
Additionally, we are extremely grateful to David S. Broder, Fareed Zakaria,
and David Brooks, who moderated our discussions, and to William Kristol
and Leslie H. Gelb, who provided incisive commentary.
Many other people helped to bring this project to fruition. Our graduate
research assistants—Seth Center, Louis-Blaise Dumais-Lévesque, and Daniel
McDowell—did an outstanding job. Susan Ferber, our editor at Oxford, took
the time to attend the workshop and offered thoughtful advice throughout
the preparation of the manuscript. Anne Carter Mulligan, program coordina-
tor at the Miller Center, supervised this project from its inception with a rare
blend of competence, diligence, tact, and good humor. Her assistance has
been indispensable to the timely completion of this book.
Most of all, we thank our authors for their illuminating contributions and
enthusiastic collaboration.
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Contents
Contributors ix
Introduction 1
Melvyn P. Leffl er and Jeffrey W. Legro
one A Farewell to Geopolitics 11
Stephen Van Evera
two End of Dreams, Return of History 36
Robert Kagan
three Beyond Statecraft 60
Charles S. Maier
four Liberal Order Building 85
G. John Ikenberry
fi ve Boss of Bosses 109
James Kurth
six Legitimacy and Competence 133
Samantha Power
seven Two Concepts of Sovereignty 157
David M. Kennedy
eight A Shackled Hegemon 181
Barry Eichengreen and Douglas A. Irwin