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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- One: Hubris -- Two: Ambition -- Three: Fortuna -- Four: Reading the Room -- Five: Money and Language -- Six: Responsibility and Representation -- Seven: Standing -- Eight: Enemies and Adversaries -- Nine: What the Taxi Driver Said -- Ten: The Calling -- Notes -- Index.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface To The Paperback Edition -- Preface -- Chapter One. Democracy and the Lesser Evil -- Chapter Two. The Ethics of Emergency -- Chapter Three. The Weakness of the Strong -- Chapter Four. The Strength of the Weak -- Chapter Five. The Temptations of Nihilism -- Chapter Six. Liberty and Armageddon -- Notes -- Index

In 2005 Michael Ignatieff left Harvard to lead Canada's Liberal Party and by 2008 was poised to become Prime Minister. It never happened. He describes what he learned from his bruising defeat about compromise and the necessity of bridging differences in a pluralist society. A reflective, compelling account of modern politics as it really is.

With the 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq, the most controversial question in world politics fast became whether the United States stands within the order of international law or outside it. Does America still play by the rules it helped create? American Exceptionalism and Human Rights addresses this question as it applies to U.S. behavior in relation to international human rights. With essays by eleven leading experts in such fields as international relations and international law, it seeks to show and explain how America's approach to human rights differs from that of most ot

With the 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq, the most controversial question in world politics fast became whether the United States stands within the order of international law or outside it. Does America still play by the rules it helped create? American Exceptionalism and Human Rights addresses this question as it applies to U.S. behavior in relation to international human rights.