GOV 312L Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Leon Trotsky, Counter-Insurgency, Henry Kissinger
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Module 4: grand strategy ii: selective engagement, liberal internationalism, and. Selective engagement: offshore balancing : historical examples- Push more responsibility for defense of europe on. Europeans to make cold war sustainable at home. Pull back ground troops, rely on allies. Worried about isolationists at home, thought could increase risk of war with soviets. Cautious with impending collapse, did not expand us influence in e. europe. Relied on nato to reassure ussr and manage german unification. Wilson and liberal internationalism: collective security system through league of nations, national self-determination (anti-imperialism, democracy, free trade, open navigation of the sea (for trade, challenges british naval hegemony) Primacy: to use unilateral means to establish american hegemony over all rivals: logic: Security is achieved unilaterally through preponderant american power. Can be marked by emphasis from a worldview that is primarily. Primacy and neo-conservatism: realist (material) or idealist (values: ex. H. w bush"s grand strategy: primacy about dominance, neo-conservatism:
