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The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of American independence, yet the founding is controversial now in ways it has not been in decades. The American Enterprise Institute offers a major intellectual and educational project to reintroduce Americans to the unique value of their national inheritance. In the sixth volume of this series, scholars of American history and international relations survey how the United States defined its place among the community of nations following independence. As they noted in the Declaration, the revolutionaries understood that the success of their movement depended on ""a decent respect to the opinions of mankind"" and assistance from allies abroad. At the same time, disputes over foreign entanglements and neutrality fiercely divided Americans in the early republic. Looking at the founding-era debates over America's ""empire of liberty"" can inform the foreign policy questions we face today.

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Yuval Levin is the director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, where he also holds the Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy. The founder and editor of National Affairs, he is also a senior editor at The New Atlantis, a contributing editor at National Review, and a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times. Adam J. White is the Laurence H. Silberman Chair in Constitutional Governance and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on the Supreme Court and the administrative state. Concurrently, he codirects the Antonin Scalia Law School's C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State. John Yoo is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute; the Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley; and a senior research fellow at the Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. Lindsay M. Chervinsky is the executive director of the George Washington Presidential Library and a historian of the presidency and American political culture and institutions. She is the author of The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution (2020). Eliga H. Gould is a professor of history at the University of New Hampshire and the author of Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire (2012). William Anthony Hay is the associate director for public programs and professor in the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University and the author of The Whig Revival, 1808-1830 (2004). Walter Russell Mead is the Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship at Hudson Institute, the Alexander Hamilton Professor of Strategy and Statecraft at the Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida, and the ""Global View"" columnist at The Wall Street Journal. He is the author of Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World (2001). Jeremy Rabkin is a professor emeritus of law at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University. He is the author of, among other books, Law Without Nations? Why Constitutional Government Requires Sovereign States (2005). Gary J. Schmitt is a senior fellow in the Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies department at the American Enterprise Institute.

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