In 1950, the U.S. military budget more than tripled while plans for a national health care system and other new social welfare programs disappeared from the age

Addresses theory and history in considering the possibilities for a new system of collective security

Here, leading scholars-including Hodgson himself-confront the longstanding theory that a liberal consensus shaped the United States after World War II. The essa

“A creative, carefully researched, and incisive analysis of U.S. strategy during the long struggle against the Soviet Union.” —Stephen M. Walt, Foreign Po

Examines American engagement with the world from the fall of Soviet communism through the opening years of the Trump administration.