Stewart Patrick unpacks a complex subject in a short, clear book that could not be more timely. The stakes in the "sovereignty wars" he describes are high and rising for the United States and the world.Anne-Marie Slaughter, President and CEO, New America
With lucidity and verve, Stewart Patrick shows how the right-wing fixation with alleged threats to U.S. sovereigntyfrom the UN, foreign courts, human rights organizations and other demonic forces--has damaged rather than enhanced American power. I implore the nationalist crowd to overcome its resistance and read this book.James Traub, columnist, Foreign Policy, and author of John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit
Stewart Patrick has written a perfect Guide to the Perplexed that helps sort through the muddled arguments being thrown about today regarding perceived threats to American sovereignty and shows how international engagement often enhances rather than limits U.S. influence.Frank Fukuyama, Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
Can Washington best advance its interests and values through international institutions or through its own national efforts and ad hoc partnership? At times, as Patrick illuminates in this cogent and timely book, this debate has turned into "sovereignty wars," heated controversies over whether the United States should accept constraints on its autonomy and freedom of action. . . . Cutting through the hyperbole and inflamed rhetoric that tends to surround this subject, Patrick argues that when the United States signs a treaty or ties itself to other countries, it is exercising its sovereign authority, not abdicating it.G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs
Patrick (Council on Foreign Relations) addresses the subject of state sovereignty and its controversial role in US foreign policypast and present. The book is well-researched and written. Highly Recommended.CHOICE
Some of us look at the U.S., mighty superpower that it still is, and wonder just what in the world is going on. Fake news, Russia-gate, rampant anti-Trumpism, America First rhetoric, citizen polarization and pugnacious confrontations with other nations. How might we make some sense of this? Stewart Patricks ambitious book, The Sovereignty Wars: Reconciling America with the World provides some answers.Michael Welton, New York Journal of Books