America's Strategic Choices

Revised Edition

International Security Reader, page 447, MIT Press

July 2000

Editors: Michael E. Brown, Editorial Board Member and Former Co-Editor, Quarterly Journal: International Security, Owen R. Coté, Editor, International Security, Sean M. Lynn-Jones, Editor, International Security; Series Editor, Belfer Center Studies in International Security, Steven E. Miller, Director, International Security Program; Editor-in-Chief, International Security; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom

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ABSTRACT

More than a decade has passed since the end of the Cold War, but the United States has yet to reach a consensus on a coherent approach to the international use of American power. The essays in this volume present contending perspectives on the future of U.S. grand strategy. U.S. policy options include primacy, cooperative security, selective engagement, and retrenchment. This revised edition includes additional and more recent analysis and advocacy of these options. The volume includes the Clinton administration's National Security Strategy for a New Century, the most recent official statement of American grand strategy, so readers can compare proposed strategies with the official U.S. government position.

Endorsements

"America's Strategic Choices collects the best recent writing on American grand strategy. It is an excellent reader for courses on US foreign policy, grand strategy, and contemporary security issues."

-- Stephen Van Evera, Associate Professor of Political Science and member of the Security Studies Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; author of Causes of War: Power and the Roots of Conflict

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