Thrall / Friedman US Grand Strategy in the 21st Century

The Case For Restraint
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-62003-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Global Security Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thrall, A. Trevor

Friedman, Benjamin H

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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: U.S. 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

Über Autor(innen)

A. Trevor Thrall is a Senior Fellow in the Defense and Foreign Policy Department, Cato Institute, USA, and author of Why Did the United States Invade Iraq? (Routledge, 2011) and American Foreign Policy and the Politics of Fear (Routledge, 2009).

Benjamin H. Friedman was previously a Research Fellow in Defense and Homeland Security Studies at the Cato Institute, USA, and is co-editor of US Military Innovation since the Cold War (Routledge, 2009).