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The Peace of Illusions: American Grand Strategy from 1940 to the Present

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2007

Colin Dueck
Affiliation:
George Mason University

Extract

The Peace of Illusions: American Grand Strategy from 1940 to the Present. By Christopher Layne. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006. 290p. $29.95.

For over a decade, through a series of influential articles, Christopher Layne has been the leading advocate within the academy of an entirely new and much more detached foreign policy strategy for the United States, one based upon what he calls “offshore balancing.” In The Peace of Illusions, Layne puts his argument in book form, addressing conceptual as well as historical and policy issues.

Type
BOOK REVIEWS: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Copyright
© 2007 American Political Science Association

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