American Grand Strategy and National Security

The Dilemmas of Primacy and Decline from the Founding to Trump
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-30174-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 570 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 858 g

This book is focused on explaining the grand strategic behavior of the United States from the Founding of the Republic to the Trump administration. To do so it employs a neoclassical realist framework to argue that while systemic change explains the broad evolution of US grand strategy, the precise shape and content of the grand strategies pursued has been conditioned by domestic political culture and interests. The book argues that distinct political cultures of statecraft (Hamiltonian, Jeffersonian, Jacksonian and Wilsonian) have acted as permissive filters through which policy-makers have interpreted and responded to systemic stimuli making some grand strategy choices more likely than others in the pursuit of national security. The book demonstrates that while primacist grand strategies were facilitated by the predominance from the mid-19 century to the early 21 century of the vindicationist Hamiltonian and Wilsonian forms of statecraft, the costs of primacy have now stimulated the resurgence of the long dormant, exemplarist Jeffersonian and Jacksonian forms of statecraft under the Obama and Trump administrations, resulting in grand strategies that seek to either manage or stave off decline in America’s relative power position.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clarke, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Außenpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. American Grand Strategy and National Security.- 2. Before Primacy: American Grand Strategy from the Founding to “Manifest Destiny”.- 3. Priming for Primacy: Building an” Empire of Principles” in the Progressive Era.- 4.Primacy Deferred: American Grand Strategy from Wilson to FDR.- 5. Primed for Primacy: American Grand Strategy and National Security during the Cold War.- 6. Primacy in the Service of (Inter)national Security: The Promises and Pitfalls of the Unipolar Moment.- 7. Primacy Constrained: Barack Obama and the Perils of Grand Strategic Under-reach.- 8. Power without Primacy: Donald Trump and the Future of American Grand Strategy

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Michael Clarke is Senior Fellow at the Centre for Defence Research, Australian Defence College, and Visiting Fellow at the Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.