States that withdraw from the international system provide insight into an unexplored area of international relations in terms of rationality, self-interest, po

"The United States is in the midst of a bruising debate about its role in the world. Not since the interwar era have Americans been so divided over the scope an

This iconoclastic and fundamental work, Eric Nordlinger's last, advocates a new variant of isolationism, a "national strategy" confining U.S. military actions l

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