Implementing Restraint
Priebe, Miranda; Rooney, Bryan; Beauchamp-Mustafaga, Nathan; Martini, Jeffrey; Pezard, Stephanie (2000). Implementing Restraint. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, The. ISBN 978-1-9774-0630-9.
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Abstract: In recent years, there has been growing interest in rethinking the U.S. approach to the world. This report discusses one alternative to the cur- rent U.S. approach, a realist grand strategy of restraint, which has long been prominent in the academic security studies community. To help leaders and the public evaluate this option, which has now entered the policy discourse, this report describes how U.S. regional security policies would change if the United States adopted this grand strategy. For analysts, we also offer a framework for identifying the set of security policy issues that any grand strategy needs to inform for each region, focusing on conditions under which the United States would use force, U.S. relationships with potential adversaries and allies, military pos- ture, and security cooperation activities. The report also identifies unanswered questions about a grand strategy of restraint and proposes next steps for clarifying the policy implications of such a strategy in each region.
"...Advocates of restraint also could be more explicit about U.S. partnerships, cooperative relationships that do not involve a formal treaty commitment. As noted earlier, advocates of restraint discourage the creation of new partnerships. However, it is unclear whether advocates of restraint would want to end or change the nature of U.S. engagements with such countries as Singapore. Finally, advocates of restraint might wish to develop recommendations on U.S. relations with the Freely Associated States (FAS), which consist of the Republic of Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Compacts of Free Association agreements with these states provide for U.S. assistance to the FAS and exclusive U.S. air, land, and sea access to this strategic region, which is located west of Hawaii. Analysis of the role of current U.S. agreements with these countries in helping the United States maintain command of the commons and access to the Asia-Pacific would inform the development of policy prescriptions that are consistent with a grand strategy of restraint, particularly as China builds closer ties with the FAS..."
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OCLC: on1240199243 DOI: 10.7249/rra739-1 CorpusID: 241011066 MAG: 3122912045 OpenAlex: W3122912045
