World Out of Balance: International Relations and the Challenge of American Primacy

by William C. Wohlforth and Stephen G. Brooks

Book Overview

World Out of Balance is the most comprehensive analysis to date of the constraints on the United States' use of power in pursuit of its security interests. Stephen Brooks and William Wohlforth overturn conventional wisdom by showing 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. In fact, the authors argue that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691137846
• ISBN13: 9780691137841
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 8.9"