TY - BOOK AU - Lake,David A. TI - Entangling Relations: American Foreign Policy in Its Century T2 - Princeton Studies in International History and Politics SN - 9780691216119 AV - E744 .L27 1999eb U1 - 327.73 23 PY - 2020///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - National security KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General KW - bisacsh KW - Australia KW - Borah, William KW - Bush administration KW - Byrnes, James KW - Dulles, John Foster KW - Forrestal, James KW - Fox, Annette Baker KW - French Security Treaty KW - Great Debate KW - House, Colonel Edward KW - Iraq KW - Johnson, Hiram KW - Kennan, George KW - Kuwait KW - Lippmann, Walter KW - Lovett, Robert A KW - Marshall Plan KW - Morocco KW - Occupation Statute KW - Pacific perimeter KW - Roosevelt, Theodore KW - Saddam Hussein KW - conservative internationalists KW - decision theory KW - hegemony, American KW - multilateralism KW - neorealism KW - quasi rents N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; List of Figures and Tables --; Preface --; CHAPTER 1. Introduction --; CHAPTER 2. Security Relationships --; CHAPTER 3. A Theory of Relational Contracting --; CHAPTER 4. The Lone Hand --; CHAPTER 5. Cold War Cooperation --; CHAPTER 6. Gulliver's Triumph --; CHAPTER 7. Relational Contracting and International Relations --; CHAPTER 8. Conclusion --; References --; Index; restricted access N2 - Throughout what publisher Henry Luce dubbed the "American century," the United States has wrestled with two central questions. Should it pursue its security unilaterally or in cooperation with others? If the latter, how can its interests be best protected against opportunism by untrustworthy partners? In a major attempt to explain security relations from an institutionalist approach, David A. Lake shows how the answers to these questions have differed after World War I, during the Cold War, and today. In the debate over whether to join the League of Nations, the United States reaffirmed its historic policy of unilateralism. After World War II, however, it broke decisively with tradition and embraced a new policy of cooperation with partners in Europe and Asia. Today, the United States is pursuing a new strategy of cooperation, forming ad hoc coalitions and evincing an unprecedented willingness to shape but then work within the prevailing international consensus on the appropriate goals and means of foreign policy. In interpreting these three defining moments of American foreign policy, Lake draws on theories of relational contracting and poses a general theory of security relationships. He arrays the variety of possible security relationships on a continuum from anarchy to hierarchy, and explains actual relations as a function of three key variables: the benefits from pooling security resources and efforts with others, the expected costs of opportunistic behavior by partners, and governance costs. Lake systematically applies this theory to each of the "defining moments" of twentieth-century American foreign policy and develops its broader implications for the study of international relations UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691216119?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691216119 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780691216119.jpg ER -