… different understanding of American power in relation to our set of global problems. … adequately
explain the US’s role on these issues, as they largely assume a world of (US) free choice.…

… The global economy chapter, by contrast, focuses more on general and special responsibilities
and the wider problems of the manipulation, diffusion and shirking of responsibilities. …

… special respon sibilities due to its size and power. This, however, has been contested, with
the US itself making efforts to deny its special responsibilities … does have responsibilities. In …

State sovereignty has long been regarded as the pivotal structural paradigm of international
law. 1 Its recognition in Article 2 (1) of the UN Charter as a fundamental, albeit qualified, …

… recent discussions of “special responsibilities” have focused primarily on the role of the United
… of special responsibilities to “shed an original light on the social nature of American power …

… were internally preoccupied and relatively indifferent to our extraordinary role in the world.
Both Republicans and Democrats in Congress responded largely to domestic special …

… The principal objective should henceforth be to harness American power to British ends: “If
we go about our business in the right way we can help steer this great unwieldy barge, the …

… of realism is hubris, which in Niebuhr’s day, and in our own, finds expression in an outsized
confidence in the efficacy of American power as an instrument to reshape the global order. …

… special responsibilities unsettles the separation between order and justice, and points to the
challenges … ‘our country will shoulder a special responsibility for international affairs over the …

… of how the presence of American power enhances global security and economic stability.” …
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