Soft balancing against the United States / by Robert A Pape
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International Security Vol .30, No 1, Summer 2005, pp.7-45 (68)Summary: The United States' current policy of unilateral intervention in other soverign countries with or without international support is said to be the most aggressive posture the U.S. has ever taken. As a result other states are beginning to adopt a strategy of using soft-balancing; that is, using international insitutions, economic statecraft, and diplomatic arrangements to delay, frustrate, or undermine U.S. policies. Recommends America should renounce the use of preventive war and other aggressive unilateral military policies and return to the traditional case-by-case assessment of the need for the use of force.
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The United States' current policy of unilateral intervention in other soverign countries with or without international support is said to be the most aggressive posture the U.S. has ever taken. As a result other states are beginning to adopt a strategy of using soft-balancing; that is, using international insitutions, economic statecraft, and diplomatic arrangements to delay, frustrate, or undermine U.S. policies. Recommends America should renounce the use of preventive war and other aggressive unilateral military policies and return to the traditional case-by-case assessment of the need for the use of force.
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