Force Without Authority : America's Wars in the Middle East and South Asia

著者名：Brownlee, Jason

Oxford University Press（2026/02/13発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9780197808641
• eISBN：9780197808658

Description

Force Without Authority explores why the United States' costliest military operations since Vietnam came up short and pushed Republican and Democratic leaders toward withdrawal and retrenchment. Covering the sweep of US armed interventions since the end of the Cold War, Jason Brownlee sets America's post-9/11 invasions in a thirty-five-year foreign-policy arc--from caution to bravado--and back. The al-Qaeda attacks suspended America's traditional aversion to high-risk military missions abroad. For the better part of a decade, presidents from both parties poured US troops into nation-building in Afghanistan and Iraq, only to return, in the 2010s, to a less hazardous and less ambitious program of eliminating enemies from a distance without reshaping politics on the ground. This same calculus pushed successive administrations toward diplomacy with America's most formidable foes. Critical and wide-sweeping, the book delivers a bracing audit of America's unipolar moment and a compelling case for statecraft over bluster.

Table of Contents

1. IntroductionThe ArgumentWhat This Book Is NotImposed Costs and Foreign-Policy ConsequencesRoad Map2. Aggression and Resistance (1898-1989)Weak Occupiers, Strong SocietiesGerman and Japanese ExceptionalismEchoes of ImperialismDomestic Constraints on US InterventionConclusion3. Cautious Goliath (1989-2001)Toppling NoriegaIsolating SaddamSomalia SyndromeBattling MilosevicEngaging IranCaging IraqDividing Serbia Terrorists Beyond ReachConclusion4. Warpath (2001-2004)"An Urge for Reprisal"Invading AfghanistanTargeting IraqInvading IraqConclusion5. Compelled to Compromise (2004-2011)Foreign ProvocationsCompromising with InsurgentsNation-Building Redux Obama's Surge Conclusion6. Force Without Authority (2011-2014)America's War, Pakistan's FightGetting Bin LadenThe Arab Spring and American AmbivalenceState Collapse in YemenRegime Change and Its Aftermath in LibyaCondemning, But Not Confronting SyriaConclusion7. Victory Without Invasion (2014-2018)No More Nation-BuildingFertile Terrain for "Islamic State"Retribution and Risk-SharingPrudence Over PanicNew President, Same PolicyConclusion8. Security in Retreat (2018-2025)Indigenous Regime Change in SyriaIran Nears the Nuclear ThresholdPushing Iran to the BrinkPostponing Defeat in AfghanistanReturn of the EmirateConclusion9. ConclusionThe Reemergence of Risk AversionPersistent Patterns of Regime ChangeLessons Learned by RivalsThe Dangers of Asymmetric ForceReferences