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The book takes a hard look at libertarian foreign policy doctrines, especially those of non-intervention, interstate federalism, and non-aggression, and applies new insights to these old doctrines. Classical liberal thinkers such as Vincent Ostrom, James Madison, and F.A. Hayek have all hinted at the idea of world governance from a libertarian standpoint. Yet today, "the libertarian position" on foreign policy is either non-intervention from the US side of the Atlantic or a halfhearted confederation from the European side of the Atlantic. The themes that emerge in this volume (II) are whether or not libertarian alternatives to the status quo are workable and, if so, whatwould they look like.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Aggression Abroad: Noninterventionism Without National Sovereignty.- Chapter 2.The State, the Nation, Nationalism, and the Interstate Federalist Tradition.- Chapter 3. Interstate Federalism: Challenges From the History of Classical Liberalism.- Chapter4.Reintroducing John Witherspoon: Interstate Relations and Survival in Revolutionary America.- Chapter 5.Secession, International Law, and Human Rights.- Chapter 6. Decentralized Despotism and the Illusion of International Anarchy.- Chapter 7.Subsidiarity and Secession: Bringing the Austrian School to the 21st Century.- Chapter 8. State Recognition, Unilateral Secession, and Anarchy.- Chapter 9. Resizing and Restructuring States: New World Sovereignty in a New World.- Chapter 10.Conclusion.- Chapter 11.Dharma and Chakravarti for Liberty: Decentering Hegemony via Buddhist Political Philosophy.
About the author
Brandon Christensen is the editor-in-chief of Isonomia Quarterly.
