“Since the end of the Cold War, impulse and ideology, generously seasoned with fantasy, have displaced principled strategy as the basis for U. S. policy. In this important and timely volume, Barry R. Posen illuminates the path back toward good sense and sobriety. Restraint is a splendid achievement.”―Andrew J. Bacevich, Boston University, author of Breach of Trust
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2015 American Pendulum: Recurring Debates in U.S. Grand Strategy
2015 Grand Strategy in Theory and Practice: The Need for an Effective American Foreign Policy
2015 Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy
2015 The Global Village Myth: Distance, War, and the Limits of Power
2013 Political Economy and Grand Strategy: A Neoclassical Realist View
2013 The Challenge of Grand Strategy: The Great Powers and the Broken Balance between the World Wars
2011 The Shaping of Grand Strategy: Policy, Diplomacy, and War
2010 A Calculus of Power: Grand Strategy in the Twenty-First Century
2007 Power, Terror, Peace, and War: America's Grand Strategy in a World at Risk
2007 The Peace of Illusions: American Grand Strategy from 1940 to the Present
2007 The Political Economy of Grand Strategy
1996 The Making of Strategy: Rulers, States, and War
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2016 Grand Strategy and Military Alliances
‘This is an outstanding, ground-breaking study that puts elite studies back on the agenda. But it goes far further than rehashing C Wright Mills's The Power Elite or William Domhoff’s Who Rules America. The study establishes the objective and subjective significance of elites in American society, politics and foreign policy, and then even more significantly, shows through key decisions taken by administrations from Clinton to Obama how elites set the agenda for post-Cold war American grand strategy. This is a remarkable book that will become required reading for political scientists, area studies and IR specialists.' – Inderjeet Parmar, Professor in International Politics. City University London
Previously Reviewed:
2011 Lines of Fire: A Renegade Writes on Strategy, Intelligence, and Security
2010 Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order
2008 To Lead the World: American Strategy after the Bush Doctrine
2004 Strategy: Process, Content, Context–An International Perspective
2003 The Search for Security: A U.S. Grand Strategy for the Twenty-First Century
2002 Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace, Revised and Enlarged Edition
1993 The Domestic Base of Grand Strategy
1992 Grand Strategies in War and Peace
1989 Preventing World War III: A Realistic Grand Strategy
1986 Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
