Reluctant Crusaders: Power, Culture, and Change in American Grand Strategy
One ofChoice'sOutstanding Academic Titles for 2007"A particularly valuable book. Utilizing a large body of sources, Dueck lucidly examines a core issue of American foreign policy, namely, the essential factors that determine its grand strategy.. . . His arguments are persuasive and often unique. . . . Essential."--Choice"Realists have long lamented the periodic tendency of the United States to embark upon ideological crusades abroad. DuecksReluctant Crusadersgoes some way in providing a causal explanation for such anomalous, and at times, self-defeating, strategic behavior."--Jeffrey W. Taliaferro,Perspectives on Politics"Colin Dueck'sReluctant Crusadersis a well-researched, cogently argued explanation of how America's internal political characteristics have shaped its strategy toward the world...[It] is a welcome starting point for understanding how America's history and beliefs have enforced a surprising continuity in U.S. foreign policy, even as international threats and conditions have changed dramatically."--Todd R. Lowery,Claremont Review of Books