Description: In the late 1970s, the United States often seemed to be a superpower in decline. Battered by crises and setbacks around the globe, its post-World War II international leadership appeared to be draining steadily away. Yet just over a decade later, by the early 1990s, America's global primacy had been reasserted in dramatic fashion. The Cold War...
Brief description: Hal Brands is the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He is the author of What Good is Grand Strategy?
Review Quotes:
Hal Brands has catapulted into the foremost ranks of a new generation of US strategic thinkers.
-- "Foreign Affairs"