1. Gilford John Ikenberry is an American political scientist.
16 Facts About John Ikenberry
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John Ikenberry is the Albert G Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University.
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John Ikenberry then moved to the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught from 1993 to 1999, serving as co-director of the Lauder Institute from 1994 to 1998, while since 1996 he has been Visiting Professor at the Catholic University of Milan in Italy.
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John Ikenberry returned to Princeton in 2004, at the invitation of then-Dean Anne-Marie Slaughter, as the Albert G Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
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John Ikenberry is a Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Korea.
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John Ikenberry served on the US State Department's Policy Planning Staff from 1991 to 1992.
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John Ikenberry was a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 1992 to 1993, a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars from 1998 to 1999, and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution from 1997 to 2002.
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John Ikenberry has worked for several projects of the Council on Foreign Relations and is the Political and Legal book reviewer for Foreign Affairs.
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John Ikenberry is known for vehement criticism of what he described as the "neoimperial grand strategy" of the United States under the Bush administration.
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John Ikenberry's critique is primarily a pragmatic one, arguing not that the US should eschew imperialism as a matter of principle, but rather, that it is not in a position to succeed at an imperial project.
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John Ikenberry contends that such a strategy, rather than enabling a successful War on Terrorism and preserving international peace, will end up alienating American allies, weakening international institutions, and provoking violent blowback, including terrorism, internationally, as well as being politically unsustainable domestically.
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John Ikenberry argues that the first thing that US must do is to reestablish itself as a foremost supporter of the global system that underpins the Western order.
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John Ikenberry sought to do so through a model based on upholding collective security and sparking a democratic revolution across the European continent based on American ideals.
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John Ikenberry asserts that the dense, encompassing, and broadly endorsed system of rules and institutions, which are rooted in and reinforced by democracy and capitalism, laid a basis of cooperation and shared authority over the current US-led global system.
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John Ikenberry says that system with the institutions that were built around rules and norms of nondiscrimination and market openness, provides low barrier of economic participation and high potential benefits.
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John Ikenberry has published in a number of foreign policy and international relations journals, and writes regularly for Foreign Affairs:.