Glossary
A legitimating order Jiang says America claimed to preserve after 1991 through U.N. authority and restraint.
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Rules-based order
A legitimating order Jiang says America claimed to preserve after 1991 through U.N.
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Rules-based institutions and culture make people believe the game is fair, so collapses look like natural gravity or moral failure rather than engineered events.
definition
The rules-based international order hid American domination behind multilateral bodies, making empire appear as fairness, logic, reason, and debate.
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diagnosis
The rules-based order decays when the hegemon starts ignoring its own rules, as Jiang says America did by bombing Libya and Syria and attacking Iran without international approval.
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The Pax Americana replaces the World War II nation-state order with an international rules-based order, global free trade, and consumerism.
definition
Jiang defines the first post-1991 U.S. theory of empire as limited objectives, coalition action, and U.N. authority under a rules-based order.
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"...is you create multilateral organizations called the rules based in actual order like the wto un and you make them believe that oh it's..."
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"no one's fault it's just like we were too lazy and corrupt okay all right so certain things to remember about the system is..."
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"And the third is what we call the rules -based international order. And what this means is American power hid behind multilateral organizations such..."
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"Which it self -created. Right? So America started to bomb countries such as Libya and Syria about international approval. Most recently, it went to..."
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"...nationalism and fascism. The Pax Americana is about the international rules -based order. Okay? The United Nations, human rights, the Geneva Convention, all these..."
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"That's what fascism is, the unit of will. We as a people, if we come together, we will be this invincible, inevitable historical force..."
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"...the important principle is to maintain the rules based in national order, okay? So what America said at that point is, yeah, I know..."
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"Does that make sense? Okay, but this is something we will discuss later on, okay? In another class, okay? All right, all right. Let's..."
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"Whereas in the Persian Gulf War, led by the father, right, George Herbert Walker Bush, the first and only goal was to remove Saddam..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Fukuyama's end of history becomes, in this lecture, a temporary American spell: Pax Americana, science-priesthood, and dollar worship.
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: America mistook Iraq's one-off success for a universal doctrine, built an empire without guilt through hidden special forces, and now carries that hubris toward Iran.
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