 | Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy Subjects: Hegemony -- United States; United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001–2009; United States -- Foreign relations -- 2009–; United States -- Military policy -- 21st century; The United States, Barry R. Posen argues, has grown incapable of moderating its ambitions in international politics. In contrast to the failures and unexpected problems that have stemmed from America's consistent overreaching, Posen makes an urgent argument for restraint in the future use of U.S. military strength. Barry R. Posen is Ford International Professor of Political Science and director of the Security Studies Program at MIT. He is the author of The Sources of Military Doctrine: France, Britain, and Germany between the World Wars (winner of the Furniss Award and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award) and Inadvertent Escalation: Conventional War and Nuclear Risks , both from Cornell. |
