{"product_id":"world-out-of-balance-9780691137841","title":"World Out of Balance","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresents an analysis of the constraints on the United States' use of power in pursuit of its security interests. This book shows that in a unipolar system, where the United States is dominant in the scales of world power, the constraints featured in international relations theory are generally inapplicable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Even as pundits are proclaiming the end of the United States' unipolar moment, scholars are still trying to understand the exact nature of U.S. primacy. If the United States is the most powerful state the world has seen, what constrains or disciplines its security pursuits? In this important book, Brooks and Wohlforth survey the leading schools of thought looking for answers.\"--Foreign Affairs \"The authors dispute both the logic and the evidence that has been adduced in support of such claims and make the case so clearly that World out of Balance can be used in upper-division undergraduate courses and also read with profit by members of the profession. It will stand as a major book for years to come.\"--Robert Jervis, Perspectives on Politics \"[T]his book is an important contribution to international relations studies and should be included in any upper-level undergraduate course or graduate seminar that is concerned with issues of power, primacy or polarity.\"--Patrick Shea, Political Studies Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations ix  Preface xi  Acknowledgments xiii  CHAPTER ONE: Introduction 1  CHAPTER TWO: Realism, Balance-of-Power Theory, and the Counterbalancing Constraint 22  CHAPTER THREE: Realism, Balance-of-Threat Theory, and the \"Soft Balancing\" Constraint 60  CHAPTER FOUR: Liberalism, Globalization, and Constraints Derived from Economic Interdependence 98  CHAPTER FIVE: Institutionalism and the Constraint of Reputation 148  CHAPTER SIX: Constructivism and the Constraint of Legitimacy 171  CHAPTER SEVEN: A New Agenda 208  Index 219","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403762114903,"sku":"9780691137841","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691137841.jpg?v=1730484464","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/world-out-of-balance-9780691137841","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}