Written over a thirty-year period, the essays included in this volume develop one central theme: the completion of American isolationism in the formative years

America’s Entangling Alliances challenges the belief that the US resists international alliances. By documenting thirty-four alliances—categorized as defens

Throughout the twentieth century, American male soldiers returned home from wars with foreign-born wives in tow, often from allied but at times from enemy natio

Is America’s alliance system so quietly effective that politicians and voters fail to appreciate its importance in delivering the security they take for grant