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Exceptionalism and the George W. Bush Presidency. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, March 2009, Pages: 172
The policies and attitude of the George W. Bush
Administration towards the international rule of law
reflect a particularly heightened, hegemonic
incarnation of a distinctly American ideology. A
deep-seated system of belief has functioned as a
guiding impulse all throughout the course of U.S.
foreign and domestic policy, the effects of which
have been subsequently cataloged, and
dubbed “exceptionalism.” The present analysis sounds
a heightened call for concern highlighting both the
unprecedented and often illegal actions taken by the
former administration as per guided by this ethos,
as well as the profound implications said actions
now spell for the international legal regime. As of
now embodied in the global War on Terror of American
design, this foundational philosophy will be
revealed as a highly precarious and dangerous
ideology- which, if continued to be left unchecked
in the hands of the hegemon, could threaten to
undermine the fabric of the international system
itself via a strike through the heart of the very
principles upon which it is based.
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