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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/245024300 Title: Primacy and its discontents : American power and international stability Author: Michael E Brown Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008. ISBN/ISSN: 9780262524551 0262524554 OCLC:245024300

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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
Summary:	Experts consider whether American primacy will endure or if the future holds a multipolar world of several great powers.
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Additional Physical Format:	Online version: Primacy and its discontents. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008 (OCoLC)624890700
Material Type:	Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	Michael E Brown; et al Find more information about:
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.].
More information:	Table of contents only

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