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The Case for Alliances

The Case for Alliances

Journal Article, Joint Forces Quarterly, issue 43, pages 54-59

October 2006

Author: Dr. Elizabeth D. Sherwood-Randall, Former Founding Senior Advisor, Preventive Defense Project

Belfer Center Programs or Projects: International Security; Preventive Defense Project

 

PREVIEW

Does America need allies? The United States is the strongest nation on earth, the only standing superpower, and its natural impulse is to assume that it can act unencumbered.  Paradoxically, America needs allies because of its overwhelming strengths and the vulnerabilities that lurk in the shadow of such unprecedented national power.

 

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Full text of this publication is available at:
http://www.ndu.edu/inss/Press/jfq_pages/editions/i43/16%20JFQ43%20Sherwood-Randa
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For Academic Citation:

Sherwood-Randall, Elizabeth. "The Case for Alliances." Joint Forces Quarterly no. 43 (October 2006): 54-59.

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