US Grand Strategy in the 21st Century : The Case for Restraint (Hardcover)

1.US National Interests, Grand Strategy, and the Case for Restraint, Benjamin H. Friedman and A. Trevor Thrall PART I: The Myths of Liberal Hegemony 2. It’s a Trap! Security Commitments and the Risks of Entrapment, Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson andDavid Edelstein 3. Primacy and Proliferation: Why Security Commitments Don't Prevent Nuclear Weapons’ Spread, Brendan Rittenhouse Green 4. Restraint and Oil Security, Eugene Gholz 5.Does Spreading Democracy by Force Have a Place in US Grand Strategy?, Alexander B. Downes and Jonathan Monten 6. The Tyrannies of Distance: Maritime Asia and the Barriers to Conquest, Patrick Porter PART II: The Politics and Policy of Restraint 7. Not So Dangerous Nation: U.S. Foreign Policy from the Founding to the Spanish-American War, William Ruger 8. TheSearch for Monsters to Destroy: Theodore Roosevelt, Republican Virtu, and the Challenges of Liberal Democracy in an Industrial Society,Edward Rhodes 9. Better Balancing the Middle East, Emma Ashford 10. Embracing Threatlessness: US Military Spending, Newt Gingrich, and the Costa Rica Option, John Mueller 11. Unrestrained: The Politics of America’s Primacist Foreign Policy,Benjamin H. Friedman and Harvey Sapolsky 12. Identifying the Restraint Constituency, A. Trevor Thrall