G. John Ikenberry
- : G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major War which won the 2002 Schroeder-Jervis Award for best book in international history and politics. He served on the State Department's Policy Planning staff in 1991-92, held positions at the Carnegie Endowment and Brookings Institutions, and was a member of the recent Council on Foreign Relations commission on the future of U.S.-European relations. A book of his essays -- Liberal Order and Imperial Ambition -- will be published next year by Polity Press. He is currently writing a book on the crisis of America's liberal international order.
Woodrow Wilson at 150 – Fourteen Points
Woodrow Wilson was born 150 years ago, on December 28, 1856. 88 years ago -- on January 8, 1918 -- Wilson gave his famous Fourteen Points address to Congress, using the occasion of the Great War to propose ideas to...more »
Posted on January 3, 2007 12:38 PM
David Rieff on a Concert of Democracies
Here is my exchange with David on the concert of democracies proposal. He is very critical of the idea. We do agree, however, on this: it is America’s more general orientation toward the world – and whether it can ever...more »
Posted on December 22, 2006 6:46 AM
Why Democracies Need a League of Their Own
In Forging a World of Liberty Under Law, Anne-Marie and I propose the creation of a Concert of Democracies. This is a very old idea, dating at least as far back as Immanuel Kant’s vision of a league of republican...more »
Posted on December 19, 2006 2:20 PM
Bush Foreign Policy – How Deep is the Failure?
Bush’s war in Iraq has been repudiated, the midterm elections did this. There is now wide open intellectual space to debate America’s next foreign policy. Jackson Diehl made this point in his commentary on the Princeton Project in Monday’s Washington Post....more »
Posted on December 1, 2006 8:53 AM
Princeton Project -- From Big Ideas to Policy Proposals
We are having a lively debate here at TPMCafe over the Princeton Project on National Security report – and we are most thankful to all the participants for their comments. We agree with the view of many of you that,...more »
Posted on October 18, 2006 6:08 AM
Steve Walt versus the Princeton Project
Steve Walt has written a tough neo-realist critique of the Princeton Project report, Forging a World of Liberty under Law. His basic thesis is that the report is a liberal internationalist statement that shares “many of the same beliefs” as...more »
Posted on October 11, 2006 6:47 AM
Getting National Security Right, Part II
In the final report of the Princeton Project on National Security, Anne-Marie Slaughter and I argue that the United States faces a kaleidoscopic array of threats in the 21st century – diffuse, shifting, and uncertain. Accordingly, we think it would...more »
Posted on October 10, 2006 7:29 AM
Explaining America’s Global Unpopularity
America’s unpopularity has been on display in recent weeks – at the podium of the UN General Assembly, in Havana at the 118-nation meeting of the Non-aligned Movement, and in new public opinion survey reports. “There is little doubt of...more »
Posted on September 24, 2006 6:09 AM
Japan and the Burden of History
America’s most important ally in Asia is in the midst of a protracted identity crisis – and the stakes are high for how it is resolved not only for Japan but also for the United States and East Asia. It...more »
Posted on August 18, 2006 6:32 AM
Letter from London
My old friend Mick Cox, professor at the LSE, sends this letter with his mid-summer reflections on the zeitgeist in Berlin, London, and Brussels: What a summer in Europe! No constitutional crises. No transatlantic spats (we’re all friend now don’t...more »
Posted on July 14, 2006 8:53 AM
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Dear Otto:
I thought my point was that moderate Republican internationalists -- to the extent they exist anymore -- are coming our way.Posted at June 30, 2005 3:51 PM in response to Richard Haass and American Grand Strategy
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I enjoy your responses, including this one. It makes a good point. I am open to new organizations and mechanisms -- this post is trying to identify a distinctive view about how power, interests and institutions (of whatever kind) work together to promote America's global position. More on this soon.
Posted at June 17, 2005 9:13 AM in response to Bush versus Truman on the UN
