Outlier States: American Strategies to Change, Contain, or Engage Regimes - Softcover

Litwak, Robert S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1421408120 ISBN 13: 9781421408125

Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012

Synopsis

In the Bush era Iran and North Korea were branded "rogue" states for their flouting of international norms, and changing their regimes was the administration’s goal. The Obama administration has chosen instead to call the countries nuclear "outliers" and has proposed means other than regime change to bring them back into "the community of nations." Outlier States, the successor to Litwak’s influential Regime Change: U.S. Strategy through the Prism of 9/11 (2007), explores this significant policy adjustment and raises questions about its feasibility and its possible consequences.

Do international norms apply only to states’ external behavior, as it might relate, for example, to nuclear proliferation and terrorism, or do they matter no less for states’ internal behavior, as it might affect a population’s human rights? What is the appropriate role for the United States in the process of reintegration? America’s military power remains unmatched, but can the nation any longer shape singlehandedly an increasingly multi-polar international system? What do the precedents set in Iraq and Libya teach us about how current outliers can be integrated into the international community? And perhaps most important, how should the United States respond if outlier regimes eschew integration as a threat to their survival and continue to augment their nuclear capabilities?

About this title

Book Description:

Outlier States examines the role of the United States as an enforcer against the development of nuclear weapons in the international community.

About the Author:

Robert S. Litwak is vice president for scholars and director of International Security Studies at the Woodrow Wilson Center. He is author of Regime Change: U.S. Strategy through the Prism of 9/11.

About this edition

• Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1421408120
• ISBN 13: 9781421408125
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256