{"product_id":"the-power-problem-how-american-military-dominance-makes-us-less-safe-less-prosperous-and-less-free-9780801447655","title":"The Power Problem: How American Military Dominance Makes Us Less Safe, Less Prosperous, and Less Free","description":"\u003cp\u003eNumerous 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Power Problem\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreble 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreble 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher A. Preble\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.06lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.32w x 0.82d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801447655\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/12\/2009 pg. 21\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristopher A. Preble is Director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Cato Institute and a former commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eJohn F. Kennedy and the Missile Gap\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eExiting Iraq: Why the U.S. Must End the Military Occupation and Renew the War against Al Qaeda\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40191882756211,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":27.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_c1db1f5b-24bf-438e-af79-bc3e162c79cb.jpg?v=1655906383","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-power-problem-how-american-military-dominance-makes-us-less-safe-less-prosperous-and-less-free-9780801447655","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}