Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction: American Exceptionalism and Human Rights by Michael Ignatieff 1 PART I. THE VARIETIES OF EXCEPTIONALISM 27 Chapter 2. The Exceptional First Amendment by Frederick Schauer29 Chapter 3. Capital Punishment and American Exceptionalism by Carol S. Steiker 57 Chapter 4. Why Does the American Constitution Lack Social and Economic Guarantees? By Cass R. Sunstein 90 Chapter 5. America's Jekyll-and-Hyde Exceptionalism by Harold Hongju Koh 111 PART II. EXPLAINING EXCEPTIONALISM 145 Chapter 6. The Paradox of U.S.Human Rights Policy by Andrew Moravcsik 147 Chapter 7. American Exceptionalism, Popular Sovereignty, and the Rule of Law by Paul W. Kahn 198 PART III. EVALUATING EXCEPTIONALISM 223 Chapter 8. American Exceptionalism: The New Version by Stanley Hoffmann 225 Chapter 9. Integrity-Anxiety? by Frank I. Michelman 241 Chapter 10. A Brave New Judicial World by Anne-Marie Slaughter 277 Chapter 11. American Exceptionalism, Exemptionalism, and Global Governance by John Gerard Ruggie 304 Contributors 339 Index 341

Promotional Information

This is an extremely interesting and well-written collection of essays on a very timely topic. Moreover, the contributors are some of the leading figures in the fields of international relations and international law. The book will certainly be read by scholars and practitioners and used as a supplemental text in courses, and it will appeal more broadly to people in America and abroad who are curious about the U.S. resistance to international treaties, international institutions, and foreign law. -- Sean D. Murphy, George Washington University, author of "United States Practice in Internationa

About the Author

Michael Ignatieff is Carr Professor of Human Rights Practice and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. His numerous books include "Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry" (Princeton) and "The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror".

Reviews

One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2006 "An excellent new collection of essays on American exceptionalism... Michael Ignatieff ... seeks to distinguish between US 'exemptionalism,' double standards and legal isolationism."--Quentin Peel, Financial Times "This collection on American exceptionalism seeks to explain the seeming paradox of US governmental support for, and aversion to, global human rights... This study is an important contribution to the scholarship of international humanitarian law and US foreign policy."--Choice "[An] important collection of essays by leading scholars... Together the authors wonderfully capture the complex interplay between values, law, and American power."--G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs Magazine "Beyond providing a highly valuable and innovative study of American exceptionalism, this book makes an original contribution to scholarship and may start a long overdue conversation with conservatives about the origins of their grievances with international human rights standards."--Michael J. Boyle, International Affairs