1st Edition
Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy How Generals, Weapons Manufacturers, and Foreign Governments Shape American Foreign Policy
Introduction
Chapter 1 – American Grand Strategy and the Unitary Actor Model
Chapter 2 – The Public Choice Model of Foreign Policy
Chapter 3 – The Rogue Superpower
Chapter 4 – Build, then Balance: The United States and Its Rivals
Chapter 5 – American Sanctions: Ineffective, Immoral, and Politically Convenient
Chapter 6 – The War on Terror from the Public Choice Perspective
Conclusion: Understanding and Changing American Foreign Policy
Biography
Richard Hanania is the President of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology and a Research Fellow at Defense Priorities. He was formerly a Research Fellow at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University, received his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles, and is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School. Richard has published academic works that contribute to the studies of American foreign policy, international law, political psychology, the role of nuclear weapons in international politics, and civil war.
