From Preponderance to Offshore Balancing, America's Future Grand Strategy
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Layne, Christopher
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1997
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Summer 1997
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The Soviet Union's collapse transformed the international system dramatically, but there has been no corresponding change in U.S. grand strategy. In terms of ambitions,
interests, and alliances, the United States is following the same grand strategy
it pursued from 1945 until 1991: that of preponderance.' Whether this strategy
will serve U.S. interests in the early twenty-first century is problematic. Hence,
in this article my purpose is to stimulate a more searching debate about future
U.S. grand strategic options.2 To accomplish this, I compare the strategy of
preponderance to a proposed alternative grand strategy: offshore balancing.
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International Security, Vol. 22, No. 1, (Summer 1997), pp. 86-124
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.