Join us for our August author series featuring Professor Barry Posen of MIT on his new book Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy. The call will take place on Tuesday, August 12, at 2:00 PM ET and be moderated by WACA President and CEO Bill Clifford. 

The United States has grown incapable of moderating its ambitions in international politics, argues Barry Posen in Restraint. Since the collapse of the USSR, Washington has pursued a grand strategy of "liberal hegemony" that he calls costly, counterproductive, and wasteful. In contrast to the failures and unexpected problems that have stemmed from America's consistent overreach, Posen makes an urgent argument for an alternative strategy based on the measured future use of U.S. military strength.


Barry Posen, Ph.D. is the Ford International Professor of Political Science and director of the Security Studies Program at MIT. He is also the author of The Sources of Military Doctrine: France, Britain, and Germany between the World Wars (winner of the Furniss Award and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award) and Inadvertent Escalation: Conventional War and Nuclear Risks. Full Bio