John Ikenberry
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| John Ikenberry | |
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| Citizenship | United States |
| Field | International Relations |
| Institutions | Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown University |
| Alma mater | Manchester College |
John Ikenberry is a prominent theorist of international relations and United States foreign policy, and a professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University.
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[edit] Career
After receiving his BA from Manchester College, and his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1985, Ikenberry became an assistant professor at Princeton, where he remained until 1992. He then moved to the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught from 1993 to 1999, serving as co-director of the Lauder Institute from 1994 to 1998. In 2001, he moved to Georgetown University, becoming the Peter F. Krogh Professor of Geopolitics and Global Justice in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He returned to Princeton in 2004, becoming the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs there.
Ikenberry served on the State Department's Policy Planning staff from 1991 to 1992. He was a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 1992 to 1993, a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars from 1998 to 1999, and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution from 1997 to 2002. He has also worked for several projects of the Council on Foreign Relations.
[edit] Criticism of U.S. policy
Ikenberry is known for vehement criticism of what he describes as the "neoimperial grand strategy" of the United States under the Bush administration. His critique is primarily a pragmatic one, arguing not that the U.S. should eschew imperialism as a matter of principle, but rather, that it is not in a position to succeed at an imperial project. He contends that this current strategy, rather than enabling a successful War on Terrorism and preserving international peace, will end up alienating American allies, weakening international institutions, and provoking violent blowback, including terrorism, internationally, as well as being politically unsustainable domestically.
[edit] Bibliography
Ikenberry is the author of:
- The State, University of Minnesota Press, 1989
- Reasons of State: Oil Politics and the Capacities of American Government, Cornell University Press, 1988
- After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars, Princeton University Press, 2001
- Liberal Order and Imperial Ambition: American Power and International Order, Polity Press, 2005
- Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American System, Princeton University Press (forthcoming)
He has also co-authored or edited:
- The State and American Foreign Economic Policy, Cornell University Press, 1988
- New Thinking in International Relations, Westview Press, 1997
- U.S. Democracy Promotion: Impulses, Strategies, and Impacts, Oxford University Press, 2000
- State Power and the World Markets, W.W. Norton, 2002
- America Unrivaled: The Future of the Balance of Power, Cornell University Press, 2002
- International Relations Theory and the Asia-Pacific, Columbia University Press, 2003
- The Nation State in Question, Princeton University Press, 2003
- Forging A World of Liberty Under Law: U.S. National Security in the 21st Century (Final report of the Princeton Project on National Security) 2006
Ikenberry has published in a number of foreign policy and international relations journals, and writes regularly for Foreign Affairs.
[edit] References
- ^ Bio at Princeton homepage.
- ^ "Dr. Ikenberry Selected as First Krogh Professor," The Hoya (Georgetown), October 16, 2001.
- ^ "Ikenberry named to endowed chair," Princeton Weekly Bulletin, June 14, 2004.
- ^ Ikenberry, John. "America's Imperial Ambition," Foreign Affairs, September/October 2002.
- ^ Ikenberry, John. "Illusions of Empire," Foreign Affairs, March/April 2004.
