Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 Introduction : American exceptionalism and human rights / Michael Ignatieff -- Ch. 2 exceptional first amendment / Frederick Schauer -- Ch. 3 Capital punishment and American exceptionalism / Carol S. Steiker -- Ch. 4 Why does the American constitution lack social and economic guarantees? / Cass R. Sunstein -- Ch. 5 America's Jekyll-and-Hyde exceptionalism / Harold Hongju Koh -- Ch. 6 paradox of U.S. human rights policy / Andrew Moravcsik -- Ch. 7 American exceptionalism, popular sovereignty, and the rule of law / Paul W. Kahn -- Ch. 8 American exceptionalism : the new version / Stanley Hoffmann -- Ch. 9 Integrity-anxiety? / Frank I. Michelman -- Ch. 10 brave new judicial world / Anne-Marie Slaughter
Summary
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
