LEADER 04434nam 2200769Ia 450 001 9910826602303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-5791-2 010 $a0-8014-5915-X 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801459153 035 $a(CKB)2670000000081002 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000486664 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11270152 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000486664 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10431091 035 $a(PQKB)10572646 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3137999 035 $a(DE-B1597)534422 035 $a(OCoLC)726824259 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801459153 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58403 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3137999 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10457620 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL760185 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000081002 100 $a20081204d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe power problem $ehow American military dominance makes us less safe, less prosperous, and less free /$fChristopher A. Preble 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$dc2009 215 $axiii, 212 p 225 1 $aCornell studies in security affairs 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 1 $a1-336-28899-X 311 1 $a0-8014-4765-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe U.S. military : dominant, but not omnipotent -- Tallying the costs of our military power -- It costs too much -- We use it too much -- The hegemon's dilemma -- Curing the power problem. 330 $aNumerous polls show that Americans want to reduce our military presence abroad, allowing our allies and other nations to assume greater responsibility both for their own defense and for enforcing security in their respective regions. In The Power Problem, Christopher A. Preble explores the aims, costs, and limitations of the use of this nation's military power; throughout, he makes the case that the majority of Americans are right, and the foreign policy experts who disdain the public's perspective are wrong.Preble is a keen and skeptical observer of recent U.S. foreign policy experiences, which have been marked by the promiscuous use of armed intervention. He documents how the possession of vast military strength runs contrary to the original intent of the Founders, and has, as they feared, shifted the balance of power away from individual citizens and toward the central government, and from the legislative and judicial branches of government to the executive. In Preble's estimate, if policymakers in Washington have at their disposal immense military might, they will constantly be tempted to overreach, and to redefine ever more broadly the "national interest."Preble holds that the core national interest-preserving American security-is easily defined and largely immutable. Possessing vast military power in order to further other objectives is, he asserts, illicit and to be resisted. Preble views military power as purely instrumental: if it advances U.S. security, then it is fulfilling its essential role. If it does not-if it undermines our security, imposes unnecessary costs, and forces all Americans to incur additional risks-then our military power is a problem, one that only we can solve. As it stands today, Washington's eagerness to maintain and use an enormous and expensive military is corrosive to contemporary American democracy. 410 0$aCornell studies in security affairs. 606 $aNational security$zUnited States 606 $aHegemony$zUnited States 606 $aPower (Christian theology)$zUnited States 606 $aPower (Mechanics)$zUnited States 606 $aPower (Philosophy)$zUnited States 606 $aPower (Social sciences)$zUnited States 606 $aPower resources$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xMilitary policy 615 0$aNational security 615 0$aHegemony 615 0$aPower (Christian theology) 615 0$aPower (Mechanics) 615 0$aPower (Philosophy) 615 0$aPower (Social sciences) 615 0$aPower resources 676 $a355/.033073 700 $aPreble$b Christopher A$01666646 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826602303321 996 $aThe power problem$94026009 997 $aUNINA