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The Right to Rule

American Exceptionalism and the Coming Multipolar World Order
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In The Right to Rule: American Exceptionalism in a Multipolar World Order, Hugh De Santis explores the evolution of American exceptionalism and its effect on the nation's relations with the external world. De Santis argues that the self-image of a superior, providential society is based on the myth that the United States is unique rather than a nation with political, economic, and religious values that are inherited from seventeenth-century England. American exceptionalism has underpinned the nation's foreign policy since its inception, but De Santis shows that it has become an anachronism. In the emerging multipolar world order, America will be one of several powers that determine the structure and rules of international politics rather than its sole arbiter.
Hugh De Santis is independent scholar and author of Beyond Progress: An Interpretive Odyssey to the Future and The Diplomacy of Silence.
Chapter 1: The Myth of American Exceptionalism Chapter 2: A Righteous Republic Chapter 3: Power and Prophecy Chapter 4: Remaking the World, Part Two Chapter 5: The Trustee of Freedom Chapter 6: The Politics of Accommodation Chapter 7: The Unilateralist Fantasy Chapter 8: Beyond American Exceptionalism
The Right to Rule is a rich and learned examination of American identity in all of its varied, evolving, and contradictory forms. Americans today are asking 'Who are we? How did we get here?' For answers, they would do well to start with Hugh De Santis's enthralling account. -- Andrew J. Bacevich, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft; author of After the Apocalypse: America's Role in a World Transformed
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