Renegotiating America’s Role in the World: Avoiding the British Precedent

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American Greatness
Mackubin Owens
Aug. 20, 2018

After the defeat of Napoleon in 1815, Great Britain pursued a grand strategy of primacy, based on the concept of what Robert Gilpin has called “hegemonic stability.” For nearly a century, Britain provided an international “public good,” underwriting the security upon which global stability, interdependence and prosperity depend.

By balancing power on the European continent, enforcing freedom of navigation, and supporting free trade, Britain was able to maintain an uneasy peace—disturbed only by the Crimean War and the Wars of German Unification. But by the end of the 19th century, Great Britain had become a “weary titan.” In many respects, Albion was the victim of its own success.

Having prevented general war in Europe for nearly a century, many opinion leaders in Great Britain came to believe that peace was the natural condition of the world and that war could be prevented by adhering to what is today called liberal internationalism. The burden of defense was too high. Who needed a large Royal Navy when peace was at hand?

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Renegotiating America’s Role in the World: Avoiding the British Precedent

By Mackubin Owens|  August 20th, 2018

After the defeat of Napoleon in 1815, Great Britain pursued a grand strategy of primacy, based on the concept of what Robert Gilpin has called “hegemonic stability.” For nearly a century, Britain provided an international “public good,” underwriting the security upon which global stability, interdependence and prosperity depend.

By balancing power on the European continent, enforcing freedom of navigation, and supporting free trade, Britain was able to maintain an uneasy peace—disturbed only by the Crimean War and the Wars of German Unification. But by the end of the 19th century, Great Britain had become a “weary titan.” In many respects, Albion was the victim of its own success.

Having prevented general war in Europe for nearly a century, many opinion leaders in Great Britain came to believe that peace was the natural condition of the world and that war could be prevented by adhering to what is today called liberal internationalism. The burden of defense was too high. Who needed a large Royal Navy when peace was at hand?

Moving on from Siren Song of Liberal Internationalism

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American Greatness
Mackubin Owens
Aug. 20, 2018

After the defeat of Napoleon in 1815, Great Britain pursued a grand strategy of primacy, based on the concept of what Robert Gilpin has called “hegemonic stability.” For nearly a century, Britain provided an international “public good,” underwriting the security upon which global stability, interdependence and prosperity depend.

By balancing power on the European continent, enforcing freedom of navigation, and supporting free trade, Britain was able to maintain an uneasy peace—disturbed only by the Crimean War and the Wars of German Unification. But by the end of the 19th century, Great Britain had become a “weary titan.” In many respects, Albion was the victim of its own success.

Having prevented general war in Europe for nearly a century, many opinion leaders in Great Britain came to believe that peace was the natural condition of the world and that war could be prevented by adhering to what is today called liberal internationalism. The burden of defense was too high. Who needed a large Royal Navy when peace was at hand?

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If Owens blather got any more incoherent, an ordinary script
writer night be able to turn it into a smash Broadway Comedy.
As Britain approached its zenith of Empire, they were blessed with
o/s leaders; among them PM Viscount Palmerston who asserted,
"Great nations have neither permanent allies nor friends; they
simply have permanent interests and if those interests should
change due to circumstances, so too will their allies and friends."
The Union Jack was unfurled across some half the world by 1900,
because Britain never lost sight of the fact that they represented
the values and virtues Englishmen; rather than gibberish such
as hegemonic stability and liberal internationalism.
As an island based Empire, Britain created a Navy that allowed it to
go wherever and whenever it pleased; setting an example for the world.
Great Britain rose to the pinnacle of national power over a span of
some 300 years, commencing w/the crushing the Armada of Spain
and was hardly a weary titan by 1900.
In contrast, Hohenzollern Prussia, crushed France in 1870, rising to
the top in only 30 years; an astonishing achievement and sadly
making the horrific tragedy of the Great War inevitable.