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100	1		_aPAPE Robert A
245			_aSoft balancing against the United States / _cby Robert A Pape
260			_c2005
520			_aThe 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.
650			_aUNITED STATES _xFOREIGN POLICY
650			_aUNITED STATES _xINTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
650			_aBALANCE OF POWER
650			_aINTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORY
650			_aSOFT BALANCING
690			_aUnited States
773			_aInternational Security: _gVol .30, No 1, Summer 2005, pp.7-45 (68)
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