Pushing Restraint.(Review)

From: The National Interest | Date: June 22, 2001| Author: Roberts, J.M. | Copyright information

G. John Ikenberry, After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint and the Rebuilding of Order After Major Wars (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), 203 pp., $55.

TO JUDGE from the accolades of his peers quoted on the cover of his new book, G. John Ikenberry is a distinguished political scientist who has written a distinguished book. In it, he has sought to draw on the resources both of his own discipline and of history--though one hopes it was not his decisio...

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