Excerpt Barry Blechman and Russell Rumbaugh (“Bombs Away,” July/August 2014) have revived an old argument: U.S. tactical nuclear weapons are militarily useless, and so there…
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Abstract The Washington Consensus is not what it was. A model of development associated with the United States, it has been diminished both by apparent…
Abstract Foreign policy experts have struggled to describe the unusual character of contemporary world politics. Much of the debate revolves around the concept of polarity,…
Summary Since the Cold War ended, China has become a global symbol of disregard for human rights, while the United States has positioned itself as…
Abstract The history of great power conflicts waged by maritime/island powers clearly shows the criticality of supporting continental allies with a ground force commitment. Now…
Abstract Debates about the future of American seapower in East Asia turn on the argument that American seapower presents a risky and costly luxury that…
Summary In this controversial critique of American political culture and its historical roots, Anatol Lieven contends that U.S. foreign policy since 9/11 has been shaped…
Summary The last two decades have seen a slow but steady increase in nuclear armed states, and in the seemingly less constrained policy goals of…
Summary The global financial crisis of 2007–2008 was both an economic catastrophe and a watershed event in world politics. In American Power after the Financial Crisis,…
Summary In Fire on the Water, Robert Haddick contends that much of the general public and many U.S. policy experts are unaware of the threat that…
Summary Is Japan capable of grand strategy when it comes to foreign policy? Modern Japan faces challenges on every front: from a rising China and…
Abstract China’s prevailing military strategy and America’s response to it meet the classic criterion for ‘crisis instability’. The state that initiates hostilities against the other…
Summary This volume is based on the assumption that Iran will soon obtain nuclear weapons, and Jacquelyn K. Davis and Robert L. Pfaltzgraff Jr. develop…
Summary Harold Brown served as U.S. secretary of defense when the Soviet Union posed an existential threat with superior conventional force capability and a daunting…
Summary While American national security policy has grown more interventionist since the Cold War, Washington has also hoped to shape the world on the cheap.…
