US Grand Strategy in the 21st Century: The Case For Restraint

ISBN-13: 9781138084544 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 288 str.

A. Trevor Thrall; Benjamin H. Friedman

Opis

This book challenges the dominant strategic culture and makes the case for restraint in US grand strategy in the 21st century.

Spis treści

1. US National Interests, Grand Strategy, and the Case for Restraint, Benjamin H. Friedman and A. Trevor Thrall  PART I: The Myths of Liberal Hegemony 2. It’s a Trap! Security Commitments and the Risks of Entrapment, Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson and David Edelstein 3. Primacy and Proliferation: Why Security Commitments Don't Prevent Nuclear Weapons’ Spread, Brendan Rittenhouse Green 4. Restraint and Oil Security, Eugene Gholz 5. Does Spreading Democracy by Force Have a Place in US Grand Strategy?, Alexander B. Downes and Jonathan Monten 6. The Tyrannies of Distance: Maritime Asia and the Barriers to Conquest, Patrick Porter  PART II: The Politics and Policy of Restraint 7. Not So Dangerous Nation: US Foreign Policy from the Founding to the Spanish-American War, William Ruger 8. The Search for Monsters to Destroy: Theodore Roosevelt, Republican Virtu, and the Challenges of Liberal Democracy in an Industrial Society, Edward Rhodes 9. Better Balancing the Middle East, Emma Ashford 10. Embracing Threatlessness: US Military Spending, Newt Gingrich, and the Costa Rica Option, John Mueller 11. Unrestrained: The Politics of America’s Primacist Foreign Policy, Benjamin H. Friedman and Harvey Sapolsky 12. Identifying the Restraint Constituency, A. Trevor Thrall