LEVERAGING LEGITIMACY IN SECURING U.S. LEADERSHIP
NORMATIVE DIMENSIONS OF HEGEMONIC AUTHORITY A Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Georgetown University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Government By Andrew Joseph Loomis, M.I.A. Washington, DC August 4, 2008 I am indebted to Dr. Andrew Bennett for his persistence in helping to see this project through to completion. Dr. Bennett was a steady source of enlightening insights, political commentary, and intellectual encouragement at every stage of my academic life at Georgetown. I have relied extensively on his deep knowledge of both the academic and policy dimensions of U.S. foreign policy and related themes, as well as his mastery of qualitative methodology. This final product was immeasurably improved as a result of his time and attention. I am deeply grateful for the contributions that each of my committee members made to this project. I could not have asked for more astute observer of the U.S. and European political scenes than Dr. Charles Kupchan, who provided critical correctives to my analysis along the way. Dr. Christopher Joyner provided a breadth of knowledge on international law that greatly improved my analysis of the legal matters related to this project, and his sense of humor helped to establish an atmosphere of levity in my academic experience and rescue me from excessive seriousness. I have long considered the work of Dr. Richard Falk to be a model of sophisticated analysis presented through the lens of a supremely humane worldview, and I have benefited enormously from his legal and normative insights and his prophetic voice, both in this project and in my emerging perspective on world politics. In addition to the intellectual acuity of each of my committee members’ observations on international politics, each have consistently expressed a commitment to applying their insights to the practical formulation of U.S. foreign policy. I am particularly grateful of their encouragement to continue to explore the applications of this study to both the academic and political dimensions of U.S. foreign policymaking. I am most grateful to my wife, Jenny Russell, for her enduring support. Jenny was a steady source of confidence and encouragement in the darkest hours of this project, and always ready to provide an intellectual outlet when I was in desperate need for distraction. I now understand the sentiment expressed by author’s at this stage in their writing when they profess that their work could not have been accomplished without the strength of their spouse. This has never been more true than in my case, and Jenny’s insights, love, and common sense have been a steady wind at my back. I am grateful as well to the support of our daughter Olivia, who suffered in her own way as a result of the distractions caused by this project but was a wellspring of great humor and pleasure, and to Jackson, who arrived midstream and was always quick with his characteristic radiance to help me carry on day after day.