US Grand Strategy in the 21st Century (eBook, ePUB)

The Case For Restraint
Redaktion: Thrall, A. Trevor; Friedman, Benjamin H.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

Grand strategy, meaning a state's theory about how it can achieve national security for itself, is elusive. That is particularly true in the United States, where the division of federal power and the lack of direct security threats limit consensus about how to manage danger. This book seeks to spur more vigorous debate on US grand strategy. To do so, the first half of the volume assembles the most recent academic critiques of primacy, the dominant strategic perspective in the United States today. The contributors challenge the notion that US national security requires a massive military, huge defense spending, and frequent military intervention around the world. The second half of the volume makes the positive case for a more restrained foreign policy by excavating the historical roots of restraint in the United States and illustrating how restraint might work in practice in the Middle East and elsewhere. The volume concludes with assessments of the political viability of foreign policy restraint in the United States today.

This book will be of much interest to students of US foreign policy, grand strategy, national security, and International Relations in general.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351620031
• Artikelnr.: 54139777

Autorenporträt

A. Trevor Thrall is a Senior Fellow in the Defense and Foreign Policy Department, Cato Institute, USA, and co-editor of Why Did the United States Invade Iraq? (Routledge, 2011) and American Foreign Policy and the Politics of Fear (Routledge, 2009). Benjamin H. Friedman is a Foreign Policy Fellow and Defense Scholar at Defense Priorities and an Adjunct Lecturer at George Washington University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

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