The term 'neoliberalism'has since around 1980 become a quite widely used exhortation in
some political and academic debates. Prolific employment of a term does not signify …

How can nations optimize their power in the modern world system? Realist theory has
underscored the importance of hard power as the ultimate path to national strength. In this …

This paper proposes a model for explaining shifts and variations in US grand strategy. The
model is based on a distinction between four ideal-type grand strategies or ideational …

Abstract The United States has employed three models of statebuilding over the last century,
each animated by a different political theory. Statebuilding 1.0, developed and used from the …

Given the amalgam of neo-liberal, neo-scientist and neo-conservative forces that frame
higher education_safeguarding science and medicine at the expense of arts, humanities …

The United States faces a complex and rapidly shifting international security landscape.
Forces of ethnic and religious extremism, diffusion of information technologies, proliferation …

At the time of America's 2003 invasion of Iraq, the term" neoconservative" was enjoying wide
currency. To this day, it remains a term that engenders much debate and visceral reaction …

Over the last decade, political Islam has been denounced in the Western media and in the
surrounding literature as a terrorist or fascist movement that is entirely at odds with Western …

Wanting War is the first comprehensive analysis of the often contradictory reasons why
President George W. Bush went to war in Iraq and of the war's impact on future US armed …

It is now commonly acknowledged that numerous key players in and around the Bush
administration's planning of the Iraq invasion were connected through a common …