After Victory

G. John Ikenberry is Professor of Government and International Affairs at Georgetown University and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He has published widely in the field of international relations and has, most recently, coedited American Democracy Promotion: Impulses, Strategies, and Impacts and The Emerging International Relations of the Asia Pacific Region (forthcoming). He is the author of Reasons of State: Oil Politics and the Capacities of American Government.

• Preface xi Acknowledgments xv CHAPTER ONE The Problem of Order 3 CHAPTER TWO Varieties of Order: Balance of Power, Hegemonic, and Constitutional 21 CHAPTER THREE An Institutional Theory of Order Formation 50 CHAPTER FOUR The Settlement of 1815 80 CHAPTER FIVE The Settlement of 1919 117 CHAPTER SIX The Settlement of 1945 163 CHAPTER SEVEN After the Cold War 215 CHAPTER EIGHT Conclusion 257 Appendix 275 Index 283

Winner of the Jervis-Shroeder Best Book Award "After Victory show[s] how international governance can serve the interests of hegemonic powers."--Robert Wright, The New York Times "This is a thought-provoking and elegantly written book and an important contribution to our understanding of postwar orders and institutions."--Peter Liberman, Political Science Quarterly "After Victory is a majestic work that combines many familiar but seemingly unrelated themes into one elegant package of exceptional theoretical and empirical sweep... It should have an enduring impact on the study and practice of international relations."--Randall L. Schweller, Journal of Politics "This pathbreaking work is one of the most important studies on international order to appear in many years. It will be required reading for all students and scholars of international relations."--Choice "The liberal argument that democratic regimes can make a dramatic difference in world affairs has finally achieved intellectual respectability, as this fine book so convincingly maintains."--Tony Smith, Foreign Affairs "An elegant, penetrating study about the creation and maintenance of international order in global society... This pathbreaking work is one of the most important studies on international order to appear in many years. It will be required reading for all students and scholars of international relations."--Choice "This is unquestionably one of the most important books in the field of the past decade."--International Affairs