Christopher Layne

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Christopher Layne

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#411

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According to Wikipedia, Christopher Layne is an American academic specialising in foreign policy. He is currently Robert M. Gates Chair in Intelligence and National Security at the George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. He was previously a professor at the University of Miami. His neorealist position in contemporary global politics is discussed in his 2006 book The Peace of Illusions.

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Christopher Layne's Published Works

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The Unipolar Illusion: Why New Great Powers Will Rise (1993) (700)
Kant or Cant: The Myth of the Democratic Peace (1994) (569)
Gender and conflict structure in marital interaction: a replication and extension. (1993) (452)
The Unipolar Illusion Revisited: The Coming End of the United States' Unipolar Moment (2006) (283)
From Preponderance to Offshore Balancing: America's Future Grand Strategy (1997) (267)
This Time It's Real: The End of Unipolarity and the Pax Americana (2012) (249)
The Peace of Illusions: American Grand Strategy from 1940 to the Present (2006) (166)
Measuring National Power in the Postindustrial Age (2000) (146)
The US–Chinese power shift and the end of the Pax Americana (2018) (122)
The Waning of U.S. HegemonyMyth or Reality A Review Essay (2009) (94)
The Democratic Peace (1995) (93)
The unbearable lightness of soft power (2010) (57)
China's Challenge to US Hegemony (2008) (55)
American hegemony--without an enemy (1993) (54)
The “Poster Child for offensive realism”: America as a global hegemon (2002) (50)
Offshore balancing revisited (2002) (46)
American Empire: A Debate (2006) (45)
Measuring National Power in the Postindustrial Age: Analyst's Handbook (2000) (44)
America’s Middle East grand strategy after Iraq: the moment for offshore balancing has arrived (2009) (42)
The Waning of U.S. Hegemony—Myth or Reality? (2009) (38)
The unipolar exit: beyond the Pax Americana (2011) (35)
Predicting Military Innovation (1999) (33)
US hegemony and the perpetuation of NATO (2000) (30)
Security Studies and the Use of History: Neville Chamberlain's Grand Strategy Revisited (2008) (23)
The US foreign policy establishment and grand strategy: how American elites obstruct strategic adjustment (2017) (20)
Atlanticism without NATO (1987) (19)
Rethinking American Grand Strategy Hegemony or Balance of Power in the Twenty-First Century? (2016) (19)
Preventing the China-U.S. Cold War from Turning Hot (2020) (12)
Regime Change: U.S. Strategy Through the Prism of 9/11 (2007) (12)
It's Over, Over There: The Coming Crack-up in Transatlantic Relations (2008) (10)
Who Lost Iraq and Why It Matters The Case for Offshore Balancing (2007) (9)
America as a European Hegemon (2015) (7)
The Real Conservative Agenda (1985) (7)
Realism Redux: Strategic Independence in a Multipolar World (2012) (7)
US Hegemony in a Unipolar World: Here to Stay or Sic Transit Gloria? (2009) (7)
Shell Games, Shallow Gains, and the Democratic Peace (2001) (7)
The Crusade of Illusions (2006) (4)
Obama's Missed Opportunity to Pivot Away from the Middle East (2015) (4)
Requiem for the Reagan Doctrine (2012) (2)
British grand strategy, 1900–1939: Theory and practice in international politics (1979) (2)
Reforming post‐cold war US arms sales policy: The crucial link between exports and the defence industrial base (1995) (2)
A Review of “After Empire: The Birth of a Multipolar World” (2011) (1)
Communication Patterns Questionnaire--Short Form (2013) (1)
Follies of Power: America's Unipolar Fantasy. By David Calleo. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 188p. $31.00 paper.America's Global Advantage: U.S. Hegemony and International Cooperation. By Carla Norrlof. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 292p. $85.00 cloth, $33.00 paper. (2011) (1)
Minding Our Own Business: The Case for American Non-Participation in International Peacekeeping/Peacemaking Operations (1995) (1)
Imperial Recessional (2022) (0)
Emergent Strategy and Grand Strategy: How American Presidents Succeed in Foreign Policy. By Ionut Popescu. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. 248p. $54.95 cloth. (2019) (0)
The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (review) (2009) (0)
How regular is Big Brother? Dental regulation in the United Kingdom. (2002) (0)
THE RISE OF A PEER WHAT IS A PEER COMPETITOR? (2001) (0)
DOCUMENTED BRIEFING RAND Predicting Military Innovation (1999) (0)
Abstracts (2000) (0)
Pink asteroids in Bangkok. A dental conundrum resolved. (2002) (0)
It's a long queue, too! (2002) (0)
25. US decline or primacy? A debate (2018) (0)
The American Ascendancy: How the United States Gained and Wielded Global Dominance. By Michael H. Hunt. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. 404 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3090-1.) (2007) (0)
Reviewers for Volume 26 (2003) (0)
Reviewers for Volume 28 (2015) (0)
The US foreign policy establishment and grand strategy: how American elites obstruct strategic adjustment (2017) (0)
Acknowledgement of Members of Health Education & Behavior’s Review Panel (2019) (0)
The Effect of Deep U.S. Nuclear Force Reductions on Nuclear Proliferation and Deterrence (2010) (0)
A MATTER OF HISTORICAL DEBATE (2006) (0)
American Strategy toward China (2016) (0)
Doctor or Mister: who's or whose calling? (2002) (0)
14. CONCLUSION (2017) (0)
Hal Brands. What Good Is Grand Strategy? Power and Purpose in American Statecraft from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush. (2015) (0)
Reviews of Books (2003) (0)
Jumpin' Jack Flash. It's a Nash Bash gas. (2002) (0)

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