Entangling Relations
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Allied-occupied Germany
Andrew Moravcsik
Anti-Americanism
Asset specificity
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Case study
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Cold War
Cost-benefit analysis
De facto
Defection
Division of labour
Eastern Europe
Economy
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Externality
Foreign policy
Foreign Policy Initiative
Foreign policy of the United States
Governance
Grand strategy
Great power
Gulf War
Harry S. Truman
Hegemony
Imperialism
Inference
Informal empire
Institution
International community
International organization
International relations
International security
Interwar period
Isolationism
John Mearsheimer
Kenneth Waltz
Kuwait
League of Nations
Marginal cost
Micronesia
Military strategy
Monroe Doctrine
Multilateralism
Negotiation
Neorealism (international relations)
Opportunism
Political economy
Politics
Positivism
Prediction
Probability
Protectorate
Ratification
Realism (international relations)
Result
Robert Keohane
Saudi Arabia
Security community
Somalia
Sovereign state
Sovereignty
Soviet Union
Sphere of influence
Stephen Walt
Superiority (short story)
Theory of International Politics
Transaction cost
Unilateralism
United States Department of State
Wealth
World War I
World War II
Product details
- ISBN 9780691059914
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 02 May 1999
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Throughout what publisher Henry Luce dubbed the "American century," the United States has wrestled with two central questions. Should it pursue its security unilaterally or in cooperation with others? If the latter, how can its interests be best protected against opportunism by untrustworthy partners? In a major attempt to explain security relations from an institutionalist approach, David A. Lake shows how the answers to these questions have differed after World War I, during the Cold War, and today. In the debate over whether to join the League of Nations, the United States reaffirmed its historic policy of unilateralism. After World War II, however, it broke decisively with tradition and embraced a new policy of cooperation with partners in Europe and Asia. Today, the United States is pursuing a new strategy of cooperation, forming ad hoc coalitions and evincing an unprecedented willingness to shape but then work within the prevailing international consensus on the appropriate goals and means of foreign policy.
In interpreting these three defining moments of American foreign policy, Lake draws on theories of relational contracting and poses a general theory of security relationships. He arrays the variety of possible security relationships on a continuum from anarchy to hierarchy, and explains actual relations as a function of three key variables: the benefits from pooling security resources and efforts with others, the expected costs of opportunistic behavior by partners, and governance costs. Lake systematically applies this theory to each of the "defining moments" of twentieth-century American foreign policy and develops its broader implications for the study of international relations.
David A. Lake is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego, and coeditor of the journal International Organization. He has published widely in the field of international relations and has, most recently, coedited The International Spread of Ethnic Conflict: Fear, Diffusion, and Escalation and Strategic Choice and International Relations, both available from Princeton University Press.
