Frank Ninkovich是我们这个时代最重要以及有卓越的历史学家之一，这本书是他最有野心以及广阔的一本书。他认为在历史上，美国发展的动力并不是因为它相信这是上帝所命或者美国人有一种独特的特征让他们比其他人更想要强大，而是因为它需要在国际化的地球上生存。他认为美国的外交政策从很久以前就根据在以及纠缠在全球战斗的问题上，同时也相信全球化跟我们所谓的国际社会其实是不一样的，他们有时候甚至是直接冲突的。
在20世纪的第二半部，美国不经意地被套上全球警察的角色，被逼解决许多国际冲突的问题。乌克兰、叙利亚、伊拉克、以色列、利比里亚——当这些地方出现越来越多冲突以及战争，越来越多美国人希望奥巴马总统满足美国担任警察的角色去介入。许多政治人物因为美国的例外论为傲，认为美国是历史上独一无二的国家，于是他们有义务行驶正义。但是，作者认为美国做出的许多决定并不是出于他们的例外论，反而是出于他们希望维持以及扩展一个繁荣全球性社会的需要。
这本书绝对有争议性，书中的论点也非常有说服力，会推翻一些多年来关于美国历史以及它在世界上的地位的错误概念。这本书会改变你对美国在世界舞台上的角色的看法。
关于作者：
Frank Ninkovich是纽约圣约翰大学的荣誉退休历史教授。他写过许多本书，包括：Modernity and Power以及The Wilsonian Century，两本都是由University of Chicago Press出版。他最近出版的一本书是Global Down: The Cultural Foundation of American Internationalism.
评语：
John Milton Cooper, author of Woodrow Wilson: A Biography
“‘Marvelous’ is the word to characterize this book. It is a MARVEL
of insight, reflection, and analysis. Displaying the erudition, depth, and wit that readers have long since come to expect from him, Ninkovich has produced a strikingly original account of the United States’s two centuries of experience in the world. He combines ascents to heights of philosophical discourse with consistent exercise in down-to-earth skepticism toward ideologies and intellectual constructs, including his own emphasis on globalism. No one who cares about America and the world can afford not to read this book.”Thomas Zeiler | University of Colorado
“For decades, Ninkovich has pioneered profound and sweeping works on the history of American foreign relations, most notably on the complex interaction of culture, writ large, on diplomacy. This book is no exception. Ninkovich explores how America rose to power, buffeted by the winds of globalization that shaped its culture, society, and ideology. His conceptualization moves beyond new and old approaches by placing the United States not just in the world, but in a global society. The scholarship is sound, the grasp on theory is breathtaking, and the method of weaving together external and internal transformative forces is original. This tour de force situates the author among the intellectual leaders of international relations history.”
David C. Engerman | Brandeis University
“Frank Ninkovich has done it again. The Global Republic offers a wide-ranging and original account of America’s place in the modern world. A pioneer in bringing culture to the study of American foreign relations, Ninkovich deftly weaves together culture, politics, and economics in this impressive and counterintuitive analysis of what did—and didn't—make the United States an exceptional world power.”
David Ekbladh | Tufts University
“We often now speak of ‘America in the World’ and Ninkovich has firmly put the world in the nation’s history. His provocative book challenges us to move beyond the categories of American exceptionalism that historians have too often leaned upon to see globalization, and the ability of the United States to ride and guide its waves, as a decisive force in the nation’s status in the world.”
Times Higher EDUCATION
"Frank Ninkovich’s The Global Republic . . . illuminates recent events and forecasts trajectories without pandering or prejudice. It eschews cheap shots for subtle insights. It is passionate and dispassionate. It is great history."
目录：
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Provincial Prelude
Chapter Two: Global Society and the Challenge to Exceptionalism
Chapter Three: Gaining Entrée: The United States Joins the Club
Chapter Four: The Wilsonian Anomaly; or, The Three Faces of Wilsonianism
Chapter Five: Restarting Global Society in the 1920s
Chapter Six: The War for International Society: The Coming of World War II
Chapter Seven: Economics versus Politics in the Reinvention of International Society
Chapter Eight: Ideology and Culture as Ingredients of the Cold War
Chapter Nine: Americanization, Globalization, and the End of the Cold War
Chapter Ten: Global Aftermath
Concluding Thoughts
Appendix: Historians and Exceptionalism
Notes
Index