TY  - BOOK
AU  - Saito,Natsu Taylor
TI  - Meeting the Enemy: American Exceptionalism and International Law 
T2  - Critical America
SN  - 9780814798362
U1  - 327.73001 
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - Exceptionalism
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - International law
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - Manifest Destiny
KW  - Political culture
KW  - LAW / International
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Although
KW  - American
KW  - Constitution
KW  - Enemy
KW  - Meeting
KW  - Since
KW  - States
KW  - United
KW  - approval
KW  - complacency
KW  - consistently
KW  - defined
KW  - democracy
KW  - disregard
KW  - distanced
KW  - emphasized
KW  - ensure
KW  - established
KW  - founding
KW  - freedom
KW  - frequent
KW  - from
KW  - high
KW  - home
KW  - human
KW  - implement
KW  - importance
KW  - institutions
KW  - international
KW  - internationally
KW  - itself
KW  - least
KW  - legal
KW  - levels
KW  - look
KW  - many
KW  - model
KW  - pointed
KW  - pointing
KW  - principles
KW  - protect
KW  - protector
KW  - public
KW  - rights
KW  - selective
KW  - simultaneously
KW  - such
KW  - supreme
KW  - system
KW  - that
KW  - them
KW  - throughout
KW  - with
KW  - world
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Since its founding, the United States has defined itself as the supreme protector of freedom throughout the world, pointing to its Constitution as the model of law to ensure democracy at home and to protect human rights internationally. Although the United States has consistently emphasized the importance of the international legal system, it has simultaneously distanced itself from many established principles of international law and the institutions that implement them. In fact, the American government has attempted to unilaterally reshape certain doctrines of international law while disregarding others, such as provisions of the Geneva Conventions and the prohibition on torture.America's selective self-exemption, Natsu Taylor Saito argues, undermines not only specific legal institutions and norms, but leads to a decreased effectiveness of the global rule of law. Meeting the Enemy is a pointed look at why the United States' frequent-if selective-disregard of international law and institutions is met with such high levels of approval, or at least complacency, by the American public
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