US Grand Strategy in the 21st Century: The Case For Restraint (Routledge Global Security Studies)

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.

• | Author: A. Trevor Thrall, Benjamin H. Friedman
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Feb 12, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 288 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1138084549
• | ISBN-13: 9781138084544