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The United States, Barry R. Posen argues in Restraint, has grown incapable of moderating its ambitions in international politics. Because the collapse of Soviet vitality, it has pursued a grand strategy that he calling "liberal hegemony", the one which Posen considers as unneeded, counterproductive, costly, and wasteful. Written for policymakers and observers equally, Restraint explains precisely why this grand strategy works terribly and then provides a carefully designed choice grand strategy and an associated military strategy and push structure. As opposed to the failures and unforeseen problems that have stemmed from America's regular overreaching, Posen makes an urgent debate for restraint in the future use folks military strength. After aiming the politics implications of restraint as a guiding concept, Posen sketches the correct military forces and posture that would support such a technique. He works together with a intentionally constrained idea of grand strategy and, even more important, of countrywide security (which he identifies as including sovereignty, territorial integrity, vitality position, and protection). His choice for military strategy, which Posen calling "control of the commons", focuses on safeguarding US global access through naval, air, and space vitality, while freeing the United States from almost all of the relationships that require the long term stationing folks forces overseas. The publication is shared by Cornell University Press.
