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Primacy and its discontents : American power and international stability
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Primacy and its discontents : American power and international stability

Author: Michael E Brown; et al
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.
Series: International security readers.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Michael E Brown; et al
ISBN: 9780262524551 0262524554
OCLC Number: 245024300
Notes: "The contents of this book were first published in International security"--T.p. verso.
Description: xxviii, 384 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Foreword / Graham Allison -- Preface / Sean M. Lynn-Jones -- Pt. I: The sources and prospects of American primacy. The stability of a unipolar world / William C. Wohlforth ; Command of the commons: the military foundation of U.S. hegemony / Barry R. Posen -- Pt. II: Primacy and balancing in theory and practice. The unipolar illusion: why new great powers will rise / Christopher Layne ; The unipolar illusion revisited: the coming end of American hegemony / Christopher Layne ; Structural realism after the Cold War / Kenneth N. Waltz ; Institutions, strategic restraint, and the persistence of American postwar order / G. John Ikenberry ; Transnational liberalism and U.S. primacy / John M. Owen IV -- Pt. III: New responses to American primacy. Soft balancing against the United States / Robert A. Pape ; Soft balancing in the age of U.S. primacy / T. V. Paul ; Hard times for soft balancing / Stephen G. Brooks and William C. Wohlforth ; Waiting for balancing: why the world is not pushing back / Keir A. Lieber and Gerard Alexander.
Series Title: International security readers.
Other Titles: International security.
Responsibility: edited by Michael E. Brown ... [et al.].
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