A decade of exhausting wars, punishing economic setbacks, fast-rising rivals and unrealized global aspirations has called America's global role into question as never before. Will the US long continue to be the only superpower in the international system? Should it sustain the world-shaping grand strategy it's followed since the dawn of the Cold War? Everyone who thinks about international relations cares about these questions. But while opinions are common, answers grounded in scholarship are hard to find because of lack of data and theory relevant to the 21st as opposed to the 20th century. In America Abroad, Stephen Brooks and William Wohlforth, two of the nation's leading international relations scholars, fill this gap with a bracing assessment of contemporary America's shifting global role. Their findings will reorient the debate on America's future position and grand strategy. Using new data and new approaches to measurement tailored to 21st century global politics, they show that United States' position as a peerless superpower will be secure long into the future. Engaging a vast body of the newest scholarship, they develop the theory needed to answer the most pressing grand strategic question of the day: How would America's interests fare if the United States decided to disengage from the world? Their answer runs counter to a rising chorus of calls from many academics and policy makers for US the "come home": retrenchment would put core US security and economic interests would be put at risk. America Abroad is not, however, an unalloyed endorsement for the foreign policy status quo. By providing a new way to think about the United States' position in the world, Brooks and Wohlforth move beyond the unrealistic dichotomies that characterize much of the contemporary debate. Although rise of China will not soon end America's career as the sole superpower, it is a significant shift that alters the strategic landscape and demands adjustments. And they develop a distinct position in the evolving debate on US foreign policy, now torn between calls for a more expansive style of global leadership that seeks to remake the world in America's image and demands for it to retrench and leave the world's troubles behind. Their findings support America remaining globally engaged but focusing on three objectives that have been at the core of US foreign policy since the Cold War's dawn: reducing great power rivalry and security competition in Europe, East Asia, and the Middle East, fostering economic globalization, and sustaining institutionalized cooperation that advances America's interests. Combining scholarly rigor and accessible prose, America Abroad will force us to rethink our assumptions about the nature and utility of US power in the global arena.
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Combining scholarly rigor and accessible prose, America Abroad will force us to rethink our assumptions about the nature and utility of US power in the global arena.
CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 2 -ASSESSING AMERICA'S GLOBAL POSITION CHAPTER 3 - ASSESSING CHANGE IN A ONE SUPERPOWER WORLD CHAPTER 4 - AMERICA'S GRAND STRATEGIC CHOICE CHAPTER 5 - THE SECURITY LOGIC OF DEEP ENGAGEMENT CHAPTER 6 - EVIDENCE FOR THE SECURITY BENEFITS OF DEEP ENGAGEMENT CHAPTER 7 - ASSESSING THE ECONOMIC COST OF DEEP ENGAGEMENT CHAPTER 8 - ASSESSING THE SECURITY COSTS OF DEEP ENGAGEMENT CHAPTER 9 - THE ECONOMIC AND INSTITUTIONAL LOGIC OF DEEP ENGAGEMENT CHAPTER 10 - ASSESSING THE ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF DEEP ENGAGEMENT CHAPTER 11 - CONCLUSION
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"Brooks and Wohlforth have produced a big, important book that will be essential reading for anyone who cares about what America's role in the world should be." -- Peter Trubowitz, author of Politics and Strategy: Partisan Ambition and American Statecraft "This thoughtful, well researched, and timely book counters the dangerous strategic myths of our era. Brooks and Wohlforth show that America is indeed still great and that the military, economic, and diplomatic investment Washington continues to make to stabilize the international order is both affordable and wise." --Thomas J. Christensen, author of The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power "Brooks and Wohlforth correct current calls for retrenchment and isolation with a spirited defense of realistic American internationalism. They analyze the enduring sources of American power and the essential role American influence exerts for peace and prosperity around the world. This book is essential reading for all citizens interested in foreign policy." -Jeremi Suri, author of Liberty's Surest Guardian: American Nation-Building from the Founders to Obama "America Abroad does an impressive job of advancing the debate over U.S. grand strategy. Brooks and Wohlforth provide crystal-clear distinctions in explaining what constitutes their preferred grand strategy-"deep engagement"-and then systematically build a powerful case drawing on the best available theories and evidence. Not everyone will be convinced, but America Abroad raises the bar in this important policy debate." --Charles Glaser, author of Rational Theory of International Politics "Brooks and Wohlforth argue that...the United States is the most powerful country in the world, and will remain so for many decades - if not indefinitely. The US has used this power, they argue, to create and sustain an international order that has made it a vastly safer and wealthier country than it would have been otherwise. Though Brooks and Wohlforth didn't intend it as such, their book is a kind of anti-Trump: a direct and devastating riposte to Trump's vision of US foreign policy. And while Trump's ideas come from... well, Trump himself, Brooks and Wohlforth's arguments are grounded in the most up-to-date research on how US foreign policy works." --Zack Beauchamp, Vox "America Abroad is a carefully argued tract, and worth a careful read."--American Thinker "Brooks and Wohlforth have produced perhaps the most convincing defense of American power since the Cold War ceased."--The American Conservative
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"Brooks and Wohlforth have produced a big, important book that will be essential reading for anyone who cares about what America's role in the world should be." -- Peter Trubowitz, author of Politics and Strategy: Partisan Ambition and American Statecraft "This thoughtful, well researched, and timely book counters the dangerous strategic myths of our era. Brooks and Wohlforth show that America is indeed still great and that the military, economic, and diplomatic investment Washington continues to make to stabilize the international order is both affordable and wise." --Thomas J. Christensen, author of The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power "Brooks and Wohlforth correct current calls for retrenchment and isolation with a spirited defense of realistic American internationalism. They analyze the enduring sources of American power and the essential role American influence exerts for peace and prosperity around the world. This book is essential reading for all citizens interested in foreign policy." -Jeremi Suri, author of Liberty's Surest Guardian: American Nation-Building from the Founders to Obama "America Abroad does an impressive job of advancing the debate over U.S. grand strategy. Brooks and Wohlforth provide crystal-clear distinctions in explaining what constitutes their preferred grand strategy-"deep engagement"-and then systematically build a powerful case drawing on the best available theories and evidence. Not everyone will be convinced, but America Abroad raises the bar in this important policy debate." --Charles Glaser, author of Rational Theory of International Politics "Brooks and Wohlforth argue that...the United States is the most powerful country in the world, and will remain so for many decades - if not indefinitely. The US has used this power, they argue, to create and sustain an international order that has made it a vastly safer and wealthier country than it would have been otherwise. Though Brooks and Wohlforth didn't intend it as such, their book is a kind of anti-Trump: a direct and devastating riposte to Trump's vision of US foreign policy. And while Trump's ideas come from... well, Trump himself, Brooks and Wohlforth's arguments are grounded in the most up-to-date research on how US foreign policy works." --Zack Beauchamp, Vox "America Abroad is a carefully argued tract, and worth a careful read."--American Thinker "Brooks and Wohlforth have produced perhaps the most convincing defense of American power since the Cold War ceased."--The American Conservative
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Selling point: Provides a new and better way to think about the international system that provides a more nuanced understanding of the China's rise and how America's global role is shifting Selling point: Shows why the US can and should retain its effort to actively shape the global environment by continuing its 'deep engagement' grand strategy but should also refrain from an overly expansive style of global leadership Selling point: Provides the first systematic analysis of how world politics would change if America were to pull back and pursue foreign policy retrenchment
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Stephen G. Brooks is an Associate Professor of Government in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College. William C. Wohlforth is Daniel Webster Professor of Government at Dartmouth College.
Selling point: Provides a new and better way to think about the international system that provides a more nuanced understanding of the China's rise and how America's global role is shifting Selling point: Shows why the US can and should retain its effort to actively shape the global environment by continuing its 'deep engagement' grand strategy but should also refrain from an overly expansive style of global leadership Selling point: Provides the first systematic analysis of how world politics would change if America were to pull back and pursue foreign policy retrenchment
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780190464257
Publisert
2016
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
538 gr
Høyde
243 mm
Bredde
163 mm
Dybde
28 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
288

Biographical note

Stephen Brooks, Associate Professor of Government, Dartmouth College, author of Producing Security, and co-author of World Out of Balance. William Wohlforth, Professor of Government, Dartmouth College; author of Elusive Balance and co-author of World Out of Balance