US Grand Strategy in the 21st Century: The Case for Restraint
- ISBN-10
- 1138084549
- ISBN-13
- 9781138084544
- Category
- National security
- Pages
- 276
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018
- Publisher
- Routledge Global Security Studies
- Authors
- A. Trevor Thrall, Benjamin H. Friedman
Description
National interests, grand strategy, and the case for restraint / Benjamin H. Friedman and A. Trevor Thrall -- It's a trap! : security commitments and the risks of entrapment / Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson and David M. Edelstein -- Primacy and proliferation : why security commitments don't prevent nuclear weapons' spread / Brendan Rittenhouse Green -- Restraint and oil security / Eugene Gholz -- Does spreading democracy by force have a place in U.S. grand strategy? : a skeptical view / Alexander B. Downes and Jonathan Monten -- The tyrannies of distance : maritime Asia and the barriers to conquest / Patrick Porter -- Not so dangerous nation : U.S. foreign policy from the founding to the Spanish-American War / William Ruger -- The search for monsters to destroy : Theodore Roosevelt, Republican virtue, and the challenges of liberal democracy in an industrial society / Edward Rhodes -- Better balancing the Middle East / Emma Ashford -- Embracing threatlessness : U.S. military spending, Newt Gingrich, and the Costa Rica option / John Mueller -- Unrestrained : the politics of America's primacist foreign policy / Benjamin Friedman and Harvey Sapolsky -- Identifying the restraint constituency / A. Trevor Thrall.
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