John Ikenberry

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G. John Ikenberry is a prominent theorist of international relations and United States foreign policy, and a professor at Princeton University.

1 Positions
2 Publications
3 Views
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Positions

After receiving his BA from Manchester College and his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1985, he became an assistant professor at Princeton, where he remained until 1992. He then moved to the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught from 1993-1999, where he was 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.^[1] He returned to Princeton in 2004, becoming the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs there.^[2]

Ikenberry served on the State Department's Policy Planning staff from 1991-1992, was a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 1992-1993, was a Fellow at the Wilson Center from 1998-1999, and was a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution from 1997-2002. He has also worked for several projects of the Council on Foreign Relations.^[3]

[edit] Publications

Ikenberry is the author of:

The State (Minnesota, 1989)
Reasons of State: Oil Politics and the Capacities of American Government (Cornell, 1988)
After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars (Princeton, 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, forthcoming)

He has also co-authored or edited:

The State and American Foreign Economic Policy (Cornell, 1988)
New Thinking in International Relations (Westview, 1997)
U.S. Democracy Promotion: Impulses, Strategies, and Impacts (Oxford, 2000)
State Power and the World Markets (Norton Press, 2002)
American Unrivaled: The Future of the Balance of Power. (Cornell, 2002)
International Relations Theory and the Asia-Pacific (Columbia, 2003)
The Nation State in Question (Princeton, 2003)

He has published in a number of foreign policy and international relations journals and writes regularly for Foreign Affairs.^[4]

[edit] Views

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 - he argues not that the U.S. ought to avoid imperialism as a matter of principle, but that it is not in a position to succeed at an imperial project.^[5] He claims that this strategy, rather than enabling a successful War on Terrorism and preserving international peace, will end up alienating American allies, weakening international institutions, becoming politically unsustainable domestically, and provoking violent blowback including terrorism internationally.^[6]