Geopolitics Updated: The Strategy of Selective Engagement

Art, Robert J.

doi:10.1162/isec.23.3.79

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“…Thus, selective commitment is the result of a process of discrimination under two criteria-political efficiency (low costs, high returns), and attention to concrete results over abstract principles. This kind of national security strategy mimics on a minor scale the proposed U.S. foreign policy for the early twenty-first century, and tries to combine the favorable aspects of other grand strategy options, such as domination, global collective security, regional collective security, containment, and isolationism, and to avoid pernicious effects (Art, 1999).…”

Section: Reluctance To Establish Alliances or Other Deep Security Andmentioning

confidence: 99%

Performance of the South American Defense Council Under Autonomy Pressures

Mijares¹

2018

Latin American Policy

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This article evaluates the performance of the South American Defense Council, based on the rational institutional design and the concept of the operability of alliances. The trajectory of the Council between 2009 and 2018, is examined through a theoretical approximation inspired by neoclassical realism and by applying the descriptive inference method of process tracing. The results indicate that in almost a decade, the Defense Council of the Union of South American Nations did not achieve full operability according to its institutional design. The evidence suggests that aspirations of national autonomy undermined the regional security autonomy project. The article affirms that the presence of a South American security regionalism problem resulting from national and regional autonomy tensions generated a paradox of autonomy.

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Section: Reluctance To Establish Alliances or Other Deep Security Andmentioning

confidence: 99%

Performance of the South American Defense Council Under Autonomy Pressures

Mijares¹

2018

Latin American Policy

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“…There is no nation that could transport a significant body of forces to the American homeland and attempt an invasion. 151 This contrasts with the American ability to invade anywhere. 152 Unless the United States made a deliberate decision to forego its power projection capabilities, there appears a very small possibility, if any, that this conventional asymmetry can be overturned by 2025.…”

Section: Consensus Viewmentioning

confidence: 99%

All Possible Wars? Toward a Consensus View of the Future Security Environment, 2001-2025

Tangredi¹

2000

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“…The literature on the impact of U.S. intervention on democracy (Meernik 1996;Hermann and Kegley 1998;Peceny 1999) supports the notion that democratic change is more likely subsequent to intervention under certain conditions. Though other types of foreign policy tools other than military intervention might best promote democracy (see Art 1999), military intervention can foster democratic change. And democracy has been shown to reduce repression (Davenport 1999;Zanger 2000).…”

Section: Democratization and Interventionmentioning

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Nation Building and Women: The Effect of Intervention on Women’s Agency

Caprioli

Douglass

2008

Foreign Policy Analysis

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Regardless of the primary motive, international military intervention aimed at nation building is partly intended to establish democratic societies. And scholars have demonstrated that intervention does have a positive impact on democratization. With democratization generally follows greater support for human rights. Feminist scholars, however, have questioned definitions of democracy in which at minimal, women's political rights are absent. This brings into question the impact of intervention on the status of women. Particularly in both Iraq and Afghanistan women's rights have become prominent in the post-invasion American political rhetoric. Since intervention seems to be associated with the spread of democratic principles, we seek to discover whether intervention actually moves societies toward gender equality. We examine all six cases of completed military intervention aimed at nation building in sovereign states during the post Cold War period. Three of the cases-El Salvador, Mozambique, Namibia-evidence democratic change; whereas, the remaining three states-Cambodia, Haiti, Somalia-remain undemocratized. We test the extent to which intervention has or has not improved women's equality and find no dramatic effect, either positive or negative, of intervention on the status of women in any of the six states.

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Geopolitics Updated: The Strategy of Selective Engagement

Cited by 20 publications

References 6 publications

Performance of the South American Defense Council Under Autonomy Pressures

Performance of the South American Defense Council Under Autonomy Pressures

All Possible Wars? Toward a Consensus View of the Future Security Environment, 2001-2025

Nation Building and Women: The Effect of Intervention on Women’s Agency

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