Liberal theory

Iain Ferguson

Chapter 8 in Handbook on Global Constitutionalism, 2023, pp 101-114 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter examines a political theory of international constitutionalism that is most associated with one self-identifying ‘liberal’, Gilford John Ikenberry. While Ikenberry’s name is synonymous with this theory, he is perhaps best recognised as the intellectual who has done the most to articulate its principles and aspirations from within American political society. Indeed, it is argued here, this theory is inextricably American in that it is born of liberal worldview in American political and constitutional thought, and it receives its full expression as a crisis-prone account of the dilemma to constituting a stable and liberal international order from reflections on the American and state-bound experience of war in the twenty-first century.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Law - Academic; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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