Security Strategy and American World Order: Lost Power

This book analyses security strategies in the American world order, systematically comparing Russian, Middle Eastern and European policies. Explaining the mix of bandwagoning and balancing in each case, the authors main finding is that the loss of relative power has decisive importance for the security strategies of states in all three cases, but that particular strategies can only be explained when relative power is combined with ideology and the probability of military conflict.The book is divided into three sections. In the first, a theoretical model is constructed consistent with contemporary Realism in order to analyse how states adapt their security strategies to handle different degrees and types of loss. The second section applies this model to contemporary international relations by analysing variations in the ability and willingness of actors in Europe, Russia and the Middle East to balance and bandwagon with the United States in the unipolar world order. Finally, the third section sums up and compares the results of the analyses in Section II, and outlines prospects for the future.This book focuses on states that have lost out relatively as a consequence of unipolarity, and seeks to explain how this loss has affected their security strategies. Thus, in essence, the book tells ''‚¬~the other side of the story' about the contemporary world order. Further, it also makes an important theoretical contribution by systematically coupling relative ideology and relative security with relative power, and exploring their combined explanatory value.This book will be of great interest to students of international relations, security studies and foreign policy.Wivel, Anders is the author of 'Security Strategy and American World Order: Lost Power' with ISBN 9780415466240 and ISBN 0415466245.