Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction The Puzzle of US Hegemonic Leadership
- 2 The United States as a Shrewd Sheriff
- 3 Empirical Tests for the Shrewd Sheriff
- 4 The Shrewd Sheriff on the Beat
- 5 The Shrewd Sheriff and Its Core Partners
- 6 The Shrewd Sheriff and Counterinsurgency Partners
- 7 New Challenges for the Shrewd Sheriff
- 8 Epilogue: The Badge of the Sheriff
- References
- Index
8 - Epilogue: The Badge of the Sheriff
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 July 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction The Puzzle of US Hegemonic Leadership
- 2 The United States as a Shrewd Sheriff
- 3 Empirical Tests for the Shrewd Sheriff
- 4 The Shrewd Sheriff on the Beat
- 5 The Shrewd Sheriff and Its Core Partners
- 6 The Shrewd Sheriff and Counterinsurgency Partners
- 7 New Challenges for the Shrewd Sheriff
- 8 Epilogue: The Badge of the Sheriff
- References
- Index
Summary
The final chapter rounds up the analysis and summarizes the main findings from all previous chapters. It concludes that the United States is indeed a sheriff, but a shrewd sheriff. The chapter contextualizes the main conclusions in the book within the current debates in academic and policy circles about the upending demise of the US world order. The chapter discusses the prospects of the US world order in light of the status of US domestic politics. That is the decisive debate: at the end of the day, that is where the sheriff gets its mandate. Regardless of whether the US world order is fading into the past or it is bound to endure in the future, the institutional logic of a consensual leadership will remain an original feature of how a democratic nation can manage and enforce a world order.
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- Leverage and Cooperation in the US World OrderThe Shrewd Sheriff, pp. 202 - 214Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023