The effects of wars on neutral countries: Why it doesn't pay to preserve the peace

Agricultural History Review

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1-57

  Gholz, Eugene ^a   Press, Daryl G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b Dartmouth College   (United States)

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EID: 0041328959     PISSN: 00021490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09636410108429444     Document Type: Review

References (4)

1. The lead that the United States enjoys over the next plausible peer competitor is great along many dimensions. See William C. Wohlforth "The Stability of a Unipolar World," International Security 24, no. 1 (summer 1999): 5-41.
2. Robert Jervis, The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution: Statecraft and the Prospect of Armageddon (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990), 5-6, 28.
3. For an estimate of the potential savings (c. $150 billion in 2001 dollars) if the United States adopted a militarily isolationist foreign policy, see Eugene Gholz, Daryl G. Press, and Harvey M. Sapolsky, "Come Home, America: The Strategy of Restraint in the Face of Temptation," International Security 21, no. 4 (spring 1997): 13-15, and n. 19. Other analysts suggest that savings would be lower, in the $70-100 billion range. See Barry R. Posen and Andrew L. Ross, "Competing Visions for U.S. Grand Strategy," International Security 21, no. 3 (winter 1996/97): 14-15, and Table 2.
4. For an estimate of the potential savings (c. $150 billion in 2001 dollars) if the United States adopted a militarily isolationist foreign policy, see Eugene Gholz, Daryl G. Press, and Harvey M. Sapolsky, "Come Home, America: The Strategy of Restraint in the Face of Temptation," International Security 21, no. 4 (spring 1997): 13-15, and n. 19. Other analysts suggest that savings would be lower, in the $70-100 billion range. See Barry R. Posen and Andrew L. Ross, "Competing Visions for U.S. Grand Strategy," International Security 21, no. 3 (winter 1996/97): 14-15, and Table 2.