Table of Contents

1. Introduction: the puzzle of US hegemonic leadership; 2. The United States as a shrewd sheriff; 3. Empirical tests for the shrewd sheriff; 4. The shrewd sheriff on the beat; 5. The shrewd sheriff and its core partners; 6. The shrewd sheriff and counterinsurgency partners; 7. New challenges for the shrewd sheriff; 8. Epilogue: the badge of the sheriff.

Promotional Information

Explores how the US maintains a consensual world order in partner nations with flexible and regular channels of leadership turnover.

About the Author

Giacomo Chiozza is the Sir Easa Saleh Al-Gurg Professor of International Studies at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. He has written extensively on the US world order and, in collaboration with H. E. Goemans and Kristian S. Gleditsch, created the award-winning dataset on political leaders, Archigos.