title: Liberal Order and Imperial Ambition: Essays on American Power and International Order
author: G. John Ikenberry
description: &#8220;In this masterful work covering a decade of scholarship,John Ikenberry explains how American power has not been so muchconstrained by international institutions as embedded in them. TheBush administration&#8217;s attempt to break out of perceivedinternational straightjackets in fact misunderstands the nature ofhegemonic power and represents an important break with earliertraditions of US foreign policy.&#8221;<br /><b>Francis Fukuyama</b>
zlib_text: **Contents**
  
    1. [ Cover](cover.xhtml#coverstart)
    2. Front Matter
    3. Introduction: Nostalgia in an End Time
      1. The Context
      2. The Argument
      3. Notes
    4. 1 The Idea of Liberal Order
      1. The Order in Theory
      2. Other Than That, Mrs Lincoln: Silences, Omissions and Ruptures
      3. Ready for a Master: The Illiberalism of Liberal Order
      4. Notes
    5. 2 Darkness Visible: World-Ordering in Practice
      1. An Illiberal World
      2. Order as Hypocrisy
      3. A Warrant to Strike
      4. The Order at Birth
      5. Political Economy
      6. A Nuclear Order
      7. Spheres of Influence
      8. Wars for Peace
      9. Distrusting the Order
      10. Notes
    6. 3 Rough Beast: How the Order Made Trump
      1. Alibis and Causes
      2. Trump as Caesarist
      3. The Political Economy of Trump
      4. Before the Fall
      5. Notes
    7. 4 A Machiavellian Moment: Roads Ahead
      1. A Republic in Danger
      2. Paths to Security
      3. What Is to Be Done?
      4. The Big Story
      5. Notes
    8. 