The American Era: Power and Strategy for the 21st Century

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 9
The American Era......Page 13
Introduction......Page 15
1 Caveat Empire: How to Think about American Power......Page 25
I. American Primacy: What Power Can and Can't Do......Page 29
Primacy and Its Attributes......Page 30
What Power Can't Do......Page 33
II. Thinking about American Grand Strategy......Page 39
Competing Views......Page 41
Implications......Page 50
2 New (and Old) Grand Strategy......Page 53
I. Grand Strategy After 9/11 and the Bush National Security Strategy......Page 56
Preemption......Page 58
Military Primacy......Page 60
A New Multilateralism......Page 61
The Spread of Democracy......Page 63
II. Dilemmas of Grand Strategy......Page 65
III. Threats to Primacy......Page 68
IV. Foreign Policy Where It Counts......Page 72
3 Europe: Symbolic Reactions and Common Threats......Page 75
I. Sources of Conflict......Page 79
Reactions to the Bush Doctrine......Page 81
European Attitudes and Structures......Page 85
Policy Conflicts......Page 88
American Exceptionalism......Page 90
Europe in the International System......Page 93
Europe's Foreign and Defense Policy Vacuum......Page 96
American Capabilities and European Insecurity......Page 102
Shared Interests and Values......Page 105
III. Radical Change?......Page 106
IV. Explaining the Lack of Balancing......Page 107
4 Globalization, Culture, and Identities in Crisis......Page 109
I. Globalization and Its Discontents......Page 112
II. Culture and American Primacy......Page 114
III. Culture and Political Conflict......Page 119
IV. Popular, Folk, and High Culture......Page 121
V. Culture as a Problem of Identity......Page 126
VI. Globalization, Culture, and Conflict......Page 134
5 Iraq and the Middle East: Dilemmas of U.S. Power......Page 139
Background: america and the middle east......Page 142
Iraq: A Necessary War?......Page 144
Trade-offs in the Use of Force......Page 155
Judging America's Role......Page 158
The Lessons of Iraq......Page 162
Postscript: what about israel?......Page 165
6 Asia's American Pacifier......Page 171
The united states as an asian power......Page 172
Asia's american pacifier......Page 177
Korea......Page 178
Japan......Page 180
China......Page 181
India......Page 186
Indonesia......Page 187
Asia without Tears......Page 188
7 Why They Hate Us and Why They Love Us......Page 191
Poverty......Page 194
American Support of Israel......Page 195
Globalization......Page 196
Identity......Page 197
Styles of anti-americanism......Page 198
Anti-americanism: polls, precedents, and politics......Page 206
U.s. responsibility?......Page 210
Danger or distraction?......Page 213
Introduction......Page 217
1. Caveat Empire......Page 219
2. New (and Old) Grand Strategy......Page 225
3. Europe......Page 228
4. Globalization, Culture, and Identities in Crisis......Page 232
5. Iraq and the Middle East......Page 238
6. Asia’s American Pacifier......Page 242
7. Why They Hate Us and Why They Love Us......Page 246
Index......Page 253