America's Strategy in a Changing World ― An International Security Reader

At a time when events are overtaking many publications, these articles selected fromInternational Security provide up-to-date and comprehensive analyses of American national securitystrategy in the post-Cold War world.Addressing future U.S. relations with its Cold War allies aswell as with its former foes, contributions take up such major issues as overall strategic options,security in the new Europe, relations with the former Soviet Union, U.S.-Japan relations, andthreats in the Third World, particularly proliferation.Essays in the first section examine the broadoptions that the United States has now that it no longer confronts a Soviet threat. They discusssuch questions as what threats the United States now confronts, what values and interests it shouldpursue, whether it should play a diminished role in world politics, and what lessons can be drawnfrom the past. Essays in the second section look at important dimensions of U.S. strategy, includingassuring security in Europe, relations with the former Soviet Union, and U.S. interests in the ThirdWorld.With its explicit focus on what course the United States should pursue in the post-Cold Warworld, America's Strategy in a Changing World serves as a companion volume to The Cold War andAfter, which drew on important theories in international relations to explain and predict thepattern of world politics.Sean M. Lynn-Jones is Consulting Editor of International Security and anAdjunct Fellow at the Center for Science and International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School ofGovernment, Harvard University. Steven E. Miller is Director of Studies at the Center for Scienceand International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and Editor of InternationalSecurity.