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Title: Primacy and Grand Strategic Beliefs in US Unilateralism.
Author : Global Governance
Release Date : January 01, 2007
Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 279 KB

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What is the relationship between unipolar power and unilateralism? A debate is emerging over the character and logic of international order under US primacy, led by the Bush administration's perceived privileging of unilateralism as an organizing principle of US foreign policy. The two most prominent explanations of US behavior share an underlying similarity in explanatory approach: they identify an international logic of incentives and pressures incumbent on the leading state, but fail to specify how these incentives are actually perceived and translated into policy. I argue that specific grand-strategy beliefs held by the Bush administration, including both strategic and normative propositions about international politics and US power, act as an intervening variable between these structural causes and unilateral policy outcomes. KEYWORDS: unilateralism, unipolarity, hegemony, US foreign policy, and policy beliefs. **********