America's Strategic Choices - revised edition

by Michael E. Brown (Ed.)

• ISBN13: 9780262522748
• ISBN10: 0262522748
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-24
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

More than a decade has passed since the end of the Cold War, but the United States has yet to reach a consensus on a coherent approach to the international use of American power. The essays in this volume present contending perspectives on the future of US grand strategy. US policy options include primacy, cooperative security, selective engagement, and retrenchment. This revised edition includes additional and more recent analysis and advocacy of these options. The volume includes the Clinton administration's National Security Strategy for a New Century, the most recent official statement of American grand strategy, so readers can compare proposed strategies with the official US government position.

Table of Contents

The Contributors	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
A Framework for Analyzing U.S. Strategic Choices
Competing Visions for U.S. Grand Strategy	p. 3
Restraint
Come Home, America: The Strategy of Restraint in the Face of Temptation	p. 55
From Preponderance to Offshore Balancing: America's Future Grand Strategy	p. 99
Selective Engagement
Geopolitics Updated: The Strategy of Selective Engagement	p. 141
Cooperative Security
Cooperative Security in the United States	p. 179
Concerts, Collective Security, and the Future of Europe	p. 218
Concerts, Collective Security, and the Future of Europe: A Retrospective	p. 266
Primacy
The Stability of a Unipolar World	p. 273
Preserving the Unipolar Moment: Realist Theories and U.S. Grand Strategy after the Cold War	p. 310
Documentation: A National Security Strategy for a New Century	p. 351
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 412
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