was bound to the United States through an alliance partnership and expanding economic ties. The Bretton Woods system meeting in 1944 laid down the monetary and trade rules that facilitated the opening and subsequent flourishing of the world economy. In institutionalizing its power, the United States was willing to act as a "reluctant superpower," making concessions to weaker states in order to ensure their participation in their desired framework. Ikenberry asserts that the dense, encompassing, and broadly endorsed system of rules and institutions, which are rooted in and also reinforced by democracy and capitalism, laid a basis of cooperation and shared authority over the current U.S.-led global system. He says that system with the institutions that were built around rules and norms of nondiscrimination and market openness, provides low barrier of economic participation and high potential benefits. However, the key point is that while making active use of these institutions to promote the country's development of global power status, the country should work within the order, rather than the outside of it. Thus, no major state can modernize without integrating into the globalized capitalist system. A 2018 special issue of The British Journal of Politics and International Relations was devoted to After Victory. Publications Ikenberry is the author of: Reasons of State: Oil Politics and the Capacities of American Government, Cornell University Press, 1988 The State with John A. Hall, University of Minnesota Press, 1989 After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars, Princeton University Press, 2001 (New edition, 2019). State Power and the World Markets with Joseph Grieco, W. W. Norton, 2002 Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American System, Princeton University Press, 2011 The Rise of Korean Leadership: Emerging Powers and Liberal International Order with Jongryn Mo, New York: Palgrave, 2013 A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order, Yale University Press, 2020 He has also co-authored or edited: The State and American Foreign Economic Policy, Cornell University Press, 1988 New Thinking in International Relations, Westview Press, 1997 U.S. Democracy Promotion: Impulses, Strategies, and Impacts, Oxford University Press, 2000 America Unrivaled: The Future of the Balance of Power, Cornell University Press, 2002 Reinventing the Alliance: U.S.-Japan Security Partnership in an Era of Change, New York: Palgrave Press, 2003 International Relations Theory and the Asia-Pacific, Columbia University Press, 2003 Forging A World of Liberty Under Law: