World Out of Balance by Stephen G Brooks
Presents an analysis of the constraints on the United States' use of power in pursuit of its security interests. This book shows that in a unipolar system, where the United States is dominant in the scales of world power, the constraints featured in international relations theory are generally inapplicable.
"Even as pundits are proclaiming the end of the United States' unipolar moment, scholars are still trying to understand the exact nature of US. primacy. If the United States is the most powerful state the world has seen, what constrains or disciplines its security pursuits? In this important book, Brooks and Wohlforth survey the leading schools of thought looking for answers."--Foreign Affairs "The authors dispute both the logic and the evidence that has been adduced in support of such claims and make the case so clearly that World out of Balance can be used in upper-division undergraduate courses and also read with profit by members of the profession. It will stand as a major book for years to come."--Robert Jervis, Perspectives on Politics "[T]his book is an important contribution to international relations studies and should be included in any upper-level undergraduate course or graduate seminar that is concerned with issues of power, primacy or polarity."--Patrick Shea, Political Studies Review
Stephen G. Brooks is associate professor of government at Dartmouth College and the author of "Producing Security" (Princeton). William C. Wohlforth is professor of government at Dartmouth and the author of "The Elusive Balance".
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691137841 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691137846 |
| Title | World Out of Balance |
| Author | Stephen G Brooks |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 2008-07-21 |
| Number of pages | 248 |
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