America's Entangling Alliances

America's Entangling Alliances challenges the belief that the US resists international alliances. By documenting thirty-four alliances--categorized as defense pacts, military coalitions, or security partnerships--Davidson finds that the US demand for allies is best explained by looking at variance in its relative power and the threats it has faced.

--Christopher A. Preble, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies at The Cato Institute and coauthor of Fuel to the Fire: How Trump Made America's Broken Foreign Policy Even Worse (and How We Can Recover)