America's Strategic Choices

by Brown, Michael E.; Cote, Owen R., Jr.; Lynn-Jones, Sean M.; Miller, Steven E.

• ISBN13: 9780262522434
• ISBN10: 0262522438
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-11-01
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

Almost 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 strategy. Options for US policy include primacy, cooperative security, selective engagement, and retrenchment. The volume includes the Clinton administration's National Security Strategy of Engagement and Enlargementso readers can compare proposed strategies with the official US government position.

Table of Contents

The Contributors	vii	(1)
Acknowledgments	viii	(1)
Preface	ix
Sean M. Lynn-Jones
Competing Visions for U.S. Grand Strategy	1	(49)
Barry R. Posen
Andrew L. Ross
A Defensible Defense: America's Grand Strategy after the Cold War	50	(49)
Robert J. Art
"Bismarck" or "Britain"? Toward an American Grand Strategy after Bipolarity	99	(24)
Josef Joffe
Preserving the Unipolar Moment: Realist Theories and U.S. Grand Strategy after the Cold War	123	(40)
Michael Mastanduno
The Past as Prologue? Interests, Identity, and American Foreign Policy	163	(37)
John Gerard Ruggie
Come Home, America: The Strategy of Restraint in the Face of Temptation	200	(44)
Eugene Gholz
Daryl G. Press
Harvey M. Sapolsky
From Preponderance to Offshore Balancing: America's Future Grand Strategy	244	(39)
Christopher Layne
Documentation: A National Security Strategy of Engagement and Enlargement	283	(50)
Suggestions for Further Reading	333