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The Obligation of Empire : United States' Grand Strategy for a New Century
Some of the nation's most respected scholars of international affairs examine the debates over U.S. grand strategy in light of U.S. security policies and interests in tactical regions around the world. The contributors begin by describing the four grand strategies currently competing for domina...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
The University Press of Kentucky,
2015.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Notes; Introduction: The Obligation of Empire; NEO-ISOLATIONISM; SELECTIVE ENGAGEMENT; COOPERATIVE SECURITY; PRIMACY; NOTES; Part One: Grand Strategies for the Post-9/11 World; Chapter 1 American Strategy after 9/11; THE IMPACT OF 9/11; GLOBAL RISKS; FOREIGN POLICY AND A COLD WAR MILITARY; THE ILLUSION OF MANAGING LOCAL CRISES; DISASTROUS STRATEGY; DEALING WITH TERRORISM; HYPOCRITICAL POSTURING; FUTURE DIRECTIONS; PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION; CONCLUSION; Chapter 2 Selective Engagement; ON BEING SELECTIVE AND ENGAGING.
- SOME THEORETICAL PROBLEMSAMERICAN REALISM AND SELECTIVE ENGAGEMENT; SELECTIVE ENGAGEMENT AND THE IRAQ WAR; NOTES; Chapter 3 The End of American Primacy and the Return of a Multipolar World; THE RISE OF EUROPE; AMERICA'S WANING AND UNILATERALIST INTERNATIONALISM; MANAGING THE RETURN TO MULTILATERALISM; A GLOBAL CONCERT OF REGIONAL POWERS; NOTES; Chapter 4 What Is Within Our Powers?; THE ROOTS OF AMERICAN PRIMACY; AMERICA AS A GREAT POWER; POST-COLD WAR DRIFT; THE MAKING OF THE BUSH DOCTRINE; WHAT IS NOT WITHIN OUR POWER; NOTES; Part Two: Regional Policies for the Post-9/11 World.
- Chapter 5 A Tale of Two CountriesTHE COLD WAR; THE POST-COLD WAR; CONCLUSION; NOTES; Chapter 6 Philosophical Choices and U.S. Policy to ward Central Asia Today; NOTES; Chapter 7 Contours of a U.S. Strategy toward Latin America and the Caribbean; EMBEDDED RELATIONS; GRAND STRATEGY AND GLOBALIZATION; WHERE ARE LATIN AMERICAAND THE CARIBBEAN?; CONCLUSION; NOTES; Chapter 8 Crashing into Reality; THE REGIONALIST'S DILEMMA; THE ROOTS OF GRAND STRATEGY-VITALINTERESTS, CHALLENGES, AND NATIONALCAPABILITIES; NEO-ISOLATION; SELECTIVE ENGAGEMENT; PRIMACY; COOPERATIVE SECURITY.
- LEADERSHIP-A STRATEGY OF RESONANCEDEMOCRACY AND REFORM; WEAK/COLLAPSED STATESAND TRANSNATIONAL TERRORISMS; REGIONAL INTEGRATION; CONCLUSION; NOTES; Chapter 9 Southeast Asia and American Strategic Options; THE NEW REALITY OF SOUTHEAST ASIA; ASEAN AND ITS PURPOSES; SOUTHEAST ASIA AND AMERICAN STRATEGICOPTIONS; NOTES; Conclusion Reinhold Niebuhr and the Hazards of Empire; NOTES; Contributors; Index.