Foreword by Richard C. Leone, President of The Century Foundation Introduction 1. The International Setting 2. America's National Interests 3. Dominion, Collective Security, and Containment 4. Selective Engagement 5. Isolationism and Offshore Balancing 6. Selective Engagement and the Free Hand Strategies 7. Implementing Selective Engagement Appendix A. Civil Wars Active between 1991 and 2000 Appendix B. International Wars Active between 1991 and 2000 Notes Index
Robert J. Art is Christian A. Herter Professor of International Relations at Brandeis University. He is the author of The TFX Decision: McNamara and the Military and coeditor of The United States and Coercive Diplomacy (with Patrick Cronin) and U.S. Foreign Policy: the Search for a New Role (with Seyom Brown).
"A brilliant distillation and synthesis of some of the best contemporary scholarship on American grand strategy, Art's new book offers a clear exposition of U.S. national interests and how to defend them."-Foreign Affairs "Art, a senior and seasoned scholar, deploys his craft masterfully. In A Grand Strategy for America he presents a clearheaded, classical, national-interest analysis that starts with a ranking of America's basic interests... Art then dissects eight grand strategies to promote American interests against these threats... Art's analysis is a sober reminder to European and American multilateralists that the use of force remains essential for managing world peace beyond the Atlantic region."-Henry R. Nau, Perspectives on Politics "For this American-led international system to continue to be effective, some version of Art's military strategy is an essential component. No clever political or economic scheme, for example, the 'democratic peace' or 'globalization', can compensate for it. Art has given us a first-rate and very useful book."-William E. Odom, Political Science Quarterly "Art sees six major national interests for the US in the world: preventing an attack on the homeland, preventing major Eurasian arms races and wars, preserving access to foreign oil, preserving an open economic system, promoting democracy and human rights, and protecting the environment, with special attention to global warming... Art's preference for a grand strategy of selective engagement with the world is generally well argued... Highly recommended. All levels."-Choice "Art believes the U.S. should maintain its military deployments in Europe, East Asia, and the Persian Gulf, and wage war when vital or highly important interests are threatened (and occasionally to head off a Rwanda-style genocide), but deplores the unilateralismism and 'arrogance,' and feels the U.S. should pay attention to world opinion, help combat global warming, and eschew missile defense."-Publishers Weekly, 15 July 2003 "This is a truly excellent book, destined to become a classic in the genre. Political leaders would benefit greatly reading it. It should be essential reading for anyone interested in international relations and U.S. foreign policy."-Political Studies Review "How should the United States use its preponderant power in the world? This book is a clear-eyed-and encouraging-answer from a hardheaded and sophisticated realist. Let us hope that our leaders read it!"-Joseph S. Nye, author of The Paradox of American Power and former Assistant Secretary of Defense "This is an extraordinarily lucid exposition of the choices ahead for America as it charts its course in the complex, rapidly changing, and increasingly dangerous world of the twenty-first century. Robert J. Art sets out to describe the most prudent grand strategy to secure the nation's vital and important interests, and along the way carefully considers other plausible but ultimately less attractive alternatives. The process brings the reader through a constructive application of international relations theory, incisive historical analysis, and a wonderfully textured appreciation of the international setting in which we now find ourselves. One would not expect to add about such a book that it is 'a good read,' but it is. It is at once sophisticated and scholarly, advancing the debate in the academic literature about grand strategy, and at the same time, quite accessible to any citizen interested in our nation's future. A Grand Strategy for America is just what we need."-Robert L. Gallucci, Dean, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University "Robert Art writes about American grand strategy in the tradition of Walter Lippmann and George Kennan. In his important new book, Art makes a sophisticated and powerful case for using U.S. military might to dominate Europe, Northeast Asia, and the Persian Gulf, but not to seek global hegemony."-John J. Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago "A thorough, forthright, and eminently readable examination of America's grand strategy: what it has been, what it may become, and what it should be."-Kenneth N. Waltz, Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University
"A brilliant distillation and synthesis of some of the best contemporary scholarship on American grand strategy, Art's new book offers a clear exposition of U.S. national interests and how to defend them."-Foreign Affairs "Art, a senior and seasoned scholar, deploys his craft masterfully. In A Grand Strategy for America he presents a clearheaded, classical, national-interest analysis that starts with a ranking of America's basic interests... Art then dissects eight grand strategies to promote American interests against these threats... Art's analysis is a sober reminder to European and American multilateralists that the use of force remains essential for managing world peace beyond the Atlantic region."-Henry R. Nau, Perspectives on Politics "For this American-led international system to continue to be effective, some version of Art's military strategy is an essential component. No clever political or economic scheme, for example, the 'democratic peace' or 'globalization', can compensate for it. Art has given us a first-rate and very useful book."-William E. Odom, Political Science Quarterly "Art sees six major national interests for the US in the world: preventing an attack on the homeland, preventing major Eurasian arms races and wars, preserving access to foreign oil, preserving an open economic system, promoting democracy and human rights, and protecting the environment, with special attention to global warming... Art's preference for a grand strategy of selective engagement with the world is generally well argued... Highly recommended. All levels."-Choice "Art believes the U.S. should maintain its military deployments in Europe, East Asia, and the Persian Gulf, and wage war when vital or highly important interests are threatened (and occasionally to head off a Rwanda-style genocide), but deplores the unilateralismism and 'arrogance,' and feels the U.S. should pay attention to world opinion, help combat global warming, and eschew missile defense."-Publishers Weekly, 15 July 2003 "This is a truly excellent book, destined to become a classic in the genre. Political leaders would benefit greatly reading it. It should be essential reading for anyone interested in international relations and U.S. foreign policy."-Political Studies Review "How should the United States use its preponderant power in the world? This book is a clear-eyed-and encouraging-answer from a hardheaded and sophisticated realist. Let us hope that our leaders read it!"-Joseph S. Nye, author of The Paradox of American Power and former Assistant Secretary of Defense "This is an extraordinarily lucid exposition of the choices ahead for America as it charts its course in the complex, rapidly changing, and increasingly dangerous world of the twenty-first century. Robert J. Art sets out to describe the most prudent grand strategy to secure the nation's vital and important interests, and along the way carefully considers other plausible but ultimately less attractive alternatives. The process brings the reader through a constructive application of international relations theory, incisive historical analysis, and a wonderfully textured appreciation of the international setting in which we now find ourselves. One would not expect to add about such a book that it is 'a good read,' but it is. It is at once sophisticated and scholarly, advancing the debate in the academic literature about grand strategy, and at the same time, quite accessible to any citizen interested in our nation's future. A Grand Strategy for America is just what we need."-Robert L. Gallucci, Dean, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University "Robert Art writes about American grand strategy in the tradition of Walter Lippmann and George Kennan. In his important new book, Art makes a sophisticated and powerful case for using U.S. military might to dominate Europe, Northeast Asia, and the Persian Gulf, but not to seek global hegemony."-John J. Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago "A thorough, forthright, and eminently readable examination of America's grand strategy: what it has been, what it may become, and what it should be."-Kenneth N. Waltz, Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University
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