In 'Republic in Peril', David Hendrickson sees a threat to American institutions and liberties in the emergence of a powerful national security state. The book offers a panoramic view of America's choices in foreign policy, with detailed analysis of the vested interests and ideo…
"In Republic in peril, David Hendrickson sees a threat to American institutions and liberties in the emergence of a powerful national security state. The book offers a panoramic view of America's choices in foreign policy, with detailed analysis of the vested interests and ideol…
"In Republic in Peril, David C. Hendrickson advances a powerful critique of American policy since the end of the Cold War. America's outsized military spending and global commitments, he shows, undermine rather than uphold international order. They raise rather than reduce the d…
Many critics of American foreign policy attack it as "liberal imperialism" - a willingness to use force in theaters across the globe in order extend the reach of a U.S.- dominated democratic capitalist order. The project, the critics contend is implicated in virtually every U.S.…
Interstate rivalries and the possibility of intersectional war loomed large in the thinking of the Framers who convened in Philadelphia in 1787 to put on paper the ideas that would bind the federal union together. By reexamining the creation of the federal system of the United S…