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03716aam a2200445 i 4500 001 C4528E34F11E11E79D0FC10F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180104010254 008 170412t20172017mau b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2017013637 020 $a 0674975073 020 $a 9780674975071 035 $a (OCoLC)981995733 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c HLS $d DLC $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BDX $d ERASA $d HLS $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a D31 $b .S348 2017 082 00 $a 327.1/140973 $2 23 100 1 $a Schake, Kori N., $e author. 245 10 $a Safe passage : $b the transition from British to American hegemony / $c Kori Schake. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b Harvard University Press, $c 2017. 300 $a 389 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a History records only one peaceful transition of hegemonic power: the passage from British to American dominance of the international order. What made that transition uniquely cooperative and nonviolent? Does it offer lessons to guide policy as the United States faces its own challengers to the order it has enforced since the 1940s? To answer these questions, Kori Schake explores nine points of crisis or tension between Britain and the United States, from the Monroe Doctrine in 1823 to the establishment of the unequal "special relationship" during World War II. Over this period, Safe Passage shows, the United States gradually changed the rules that Britain had established at its imperial height. It was able to do so peacefully because, during the crucial years, Britain and the United States came to look alike to each other and different from other nations. Britain followed America's lead in becoming more democratic, while the United States, because of its conquest of the American West, developed an imperial cast of mind. Until the end of World War II, both countries paid more attention to their cumulative power relative to other states in the order than to their individual power relative to each other. The factors that made the Anglo-American transition peaceful, notably the convergence in their domestic ideologies, are unlikely to apply in future transitions, Schake concludes. We are much more likely to see high-stake standoffs among competing powers attempting to shape the international order to reflect the starkly different ideologies that prevail at home.-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Opening salvo -- In theory and in practice -- Theft on the high seas: Monroe's doctrine -- Parallel latitudes: Oregon's boundaries -- Domestic threat: America's civil war -- Manifesting destiny: defining the nation -- Mission creep: the Venezuelan crises -- Us versus them: the Spanish-American War -- European power: World War I -- Imposing power: the Washington naval accords -- Sharp relief: World War II -- Lessons from a peaceful transition. 650 0 $a Peaceful change (International relations) 650 0 $a Great powers. 651 0 $a United States $x Foreign relations $z Great Britain. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Foreign relations $z United States. 650 7 $a Diplomatic relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01907412 650 7 $a Great powers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00947048 650 7 $a Peaceful change (International relations) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01055904 651 7 $a Great Britain. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 941 $a 3 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210707011659.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191213015635.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006114754.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C4528E34F11E11E79D0FC10F97128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search