Preventive Engagement: How America Can Avoid War, Stay Strong, and Keep the Peace

by Paul B Stares

Book Overview

The United States faces an increasingly turbulent world. The risk of violent conflict and other threats to international order presents a vexing dilemma: should the United States remain the principal guarantor of global peace and security with all its considerable commitments and potential pitfalls--not least new and costly military entanglements--that over time diminish its capacity and commitment to play this vital role or, alternatively, should...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231182465
• ISBN13: 9780231182461
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher