The United
States is a superpower in search of a
strategy. Following the end of the Cold War, no new grand strategy has won the
bipartisan support that underpinned America’s strategy of containment
from President Truman to President Reagan. Enthusiastic promoters of
globalization occasionally argue that international trade will be a panacea for
conflict, at least among developednations.1 The neoconservative vision of
unilateral US global hegemony always lacked adequate military forces and
funding to realize its ambitious goals.2 Now, in the aftermath of
the Iraq War, the hegemony… more
