| ID | 099861 |
| Title Proper | Making America safe for the world |
| Other Title Information | multilateralism and the rehabilitation of US |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Lake, David A |
| Publication | 2010. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Over the past century, the United States has built and sustained relationships of varying hierarchy over states in Latin America, Western Europe, and Northeast Asia. In recent decades, it also has attempted to expand its authority over other states into Eastern Europe, which has been met with a measure of success, and the Middle East, which has been far more problematic. The authority wielded by the United States over its subordinates, despite occasional abuses, provides security both internally and externally and permits unprecedented prosperity. Americans, in turn, gain from writing the rules of that order. The key foreign policy task today is not to diminish US authority, but to preserve its benefits into the future. To rule legitimately, however, requires tying the suzerain's hands. To secure the international order that has been so beneficial in the past century and to succeed in extending that order to countries that do not yet enjoy its fruits requires a new, more restraining, multilateral solution that binds the hands of the United States far more tightly than in the past. |
| `In' analytical Note | Global Governance Vol. 16, No. 4; Oct-Dec 2010: p.471-484 |
| Journal Source | Global Governance Vol. 16, No. 4; Oct-Dec 2010: p.471-484 |
| Key Words | Authority ; Hierarchy ; Multilateralism ; New World Order ; US Foreign Policy |