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By the end of the nineteenth century, america surfaced as an economical colossus in command line of a fresh empire. Yet for the next 40 years america eschewed the kind of intense grand strategy that acquired marked other rising imperial powers in favor of a policy of moderation.In Vitality and Restraint, Jeffrey W. Meiser explores why america - counter to broadly accepted wisdom in international relationships theory - chose the course it performed. Using 34 carefully researched historical instances, Meiser asserts that domestic political organizations and culture enjoyed a decisive role in avoiding the mobilization of resources essential to implement an expansionist grand strategy. These factors included traditional congressional opposition to executive branch ambitions, voter level of resistance to European-style imperialism, and the personal antipathy to expansionism noticed by presidents like Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt. The net of resilient and redundant politics restraints halted or limited expansionist ambitions and molded america into an historical anomaly, a rising great power characterized by prudence and limited international ambitions.
