{"product_id":"preventive-engagement-9780231182478","title":"Preventive Engagement","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul B. Stares proposes an innovative and timely strategy to resolve America’s foreign-policy predicament based on forging “preventive partnerships” and becoming less shortsighted and reactive. \u003ci\u003ePreventive Engagement\u003c\/i\u003e provides a detailed and comprehensive blueprint for the United States to shape the future and reduce the potential dangers ahead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul Stares offers a timely, much-needed antidote to a more turbulent world: a comprehensive strategy, drawing on all aspects of American power, to prevent conflict and advance U.S. interests without draining our human or financial resources.  Far from disengaging America from the world, Stares rightly advocates greater but smarter engagement.  His book is a compelling argument that strength and wisdom must be flip sides of the same foreign policy coin. -- Tony Blinken, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State\u003cbr\u003eAn erudite, elegant, extremely well-informed, and very thoughtful explanation of current American grand strategy, this book provides specific, finite, and feasible recommendations for improving the U.S. government's ability to anticipate and manage the latent risks of war. -- Michael O'Hanlon, senior fellow, Brookings Institution\u003cbr\u003eThe liberal international order as we know it is in retreat. The rise of Russia and China, combined with America’s pullback and the uneven progress of globalization, have all shaken the foundations of our global political system—but as Paul Stares rightly points out, that doesn’t mean all is lost. If Americans and\/or members of the Trump administration still harbor hope of keeping any semblance of U.S. primacy intact, Stares's book is a good place to start. -- Ian Bremmer, president and founder, Eurasia Group\u003cbr\u003eNational security officials often prepare to fight the last war.  In \u003ci\u003ePreventive Engagement\u003c\/i\u003e, Paul Stares argues for doing more to prevent the next one.  In an era when the United States is overcommitted and tensions are multiplying, learning to anticipate and head off trouble makes eminent good sense.  Readers may not agree with all of Stares’ recommendations, but his systematic, lucid, and forward-looking perspective is a valuable contribution to the broader debate on America’s role in the world. -- Stephen Walt, Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University\u003cbr\u003eStares offers an optimistic—yet realistic and pragmatic—plan for using all elements of national power to better anticipate and mitigate global problems before they become unmanageable. -- Peter Feaver, Duke University\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreventive Engagement\u003c\/i\u003e is a tonic for these times of potentially profound changes and rising anxiety about the durability of the current international order. Paul B. Stares offers a convincing, very practical long-term strategy for preventing and mitigating the kind of global conflict that could otherwise engulf the United States and its allies, with an emphasis on reducing costly military action. Stares seeks to make prevention as much a cornerstone of foreign policy as it is of medicine. -- Nancy Lindborg, president, U.S. Institute of Peace\u003cbr\u003eGiven the ongoing turbulence in global politics, this timely, clearly written book is recommended for national security scholars and policy makers. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003eA welcome and persuasive case for a more nuanced and far-sighted foreign policy vision. * Proceedings, a journal of the U.S. Naval Institute *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e1. America’s Predicament\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI. The Building Blocks of Preventive Engagement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. Thinking Ahead: From Warning to Anticipation\u003cbr\u003e3. Acting Ahead: From Reaction to Prevention\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eII. A U.S. Strategy for Preventive Engagement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. Risk Reduction: The Long Game\u003cbr\u003e5. Crisis Prevention: The Midterm Game\u003cbr\u003e6. Conflict Mitigation: The Short Game\u003cbr\u003e7. Partners in Prevention\u003cbr\u003e8. Reorienting the United States\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400318558551,"sku":"9780231182478","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231182478.jpg?v=1730470374","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/preventive-engagement-9780231182478","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}