10/02/2006
Joffe: Uberpower
Josef Joffe: Uberpower - The Imperial Temptation of America
Hardcover: 271 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company 2006
ISBN: 978-0-393-06135-2
Americas military superiority creates opportunites but more importantly it stresses responsibility. Realist theory of IR predicts that US power will be, sooner or later, balanced. Joffe offers in his book, Uberpower counterarguments why American hegemony will not be challenged. In short, in creating IPGs (international public goods) US is a special kind of great power.
Joffe reviews two historical options: balancing a la Britain and bonding a la Bismarck; then offers a synthesis of both as the future grand strategy for Gulliver. Bonding and balancing will be needed to duck the future bullets of counterbalancing.
Underneath the power calculus of (great) power politics exists the shared understanding of the best possible way of governing nations. The United States, the security lender of last resort, is also the world's oldest democracy.
Josef Joffe: Uberpower - The Imperial Temptation of AmericaHardcover: 271 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company 2006
ISBN: 978-0-393-06135-2
Americas military superiority creates opportunites but more importantly it stresses responsibility. Realist theory of IR predicts that US power will be, sooner or later, balanced. Joffe offers in his book, Uberpower counterarguments why American hegemony will not be challenged. In short, in creating IPGs (international public goods) US is a special kind of great power.
Joffe reviews two historical options: balancing a la Britain and bonding a la Bismarck; then offers a synthesis of both as the future grand strategy for Gulliver. Bonding and balancing will be needed to duck the future bullets of counterbalancing.
Underneath the power calculus of (great) power politics exists the shared understanding of the best possible way of governing nations. The United States, the security lender of last resort, is also the world's oldest democracy.
"EU will stick to its cozy post-Cold War posture"Second Opinion: Benjamin Zimmer / Harvard International Review ¶ 10/02/2006 04:19:00 ap.
