In Our Own Image: The Sources of American Conduct in World Affairs
Mini Teaser: In the long span of American history, two moments stand out for theircreative refashioning of the political order.
There are, indeed, crucial institutional differences between the
constitutional partnership of free nations established after the
Second World War and the union of different republics established in
1787. Of these differences, the most obvious is that the Constitution
provided a common government for the members of the Union, whereas
the post-World War II system rested on an institutional base that is
best described as "