Security First: For a Muscular, Moral Foreign Policy Book

Contents

PREFACE....................ix
PART I: SECURITY FIRST: FOR US, THEM, AND THE WORLD....................1
A. A Principled, Realistic Approach....................2
B. Policy Implications....................8
C. Implications for Failing States....................14
D. Implications for Newly Liberated Nations....................19
PART II: THE LIMITS OF SOCIAL ENGINEERING....................37
A. A Primitive Art....................37
B. The Lessons of Democratization....................42
C. The Lessons of Reconstruction and Economic Development....................58
D. The Lessons of Nation-Building....................76
PART III: THE TRUE FAULT LINE: WARRIORS VS. PREACHERS....................85
A. Fewer Enemies, More (Potential) Allies: The Global Importance of Illiberal Moderates....................85
B. Violent vs. Persuasive Beliefs in Three Religious Belief Systems....................103
C. Violent and Persuasive Beliefs in Secular Theories of Social Change....................127
D. Violent and Persuasive Beliefs in Islam....................134
E. Illiberal Moderate Muslims: The Global Swing Vote....................140
PART IV: THE IMPORTANCE OF MORAL CULTURE....................152
A. The Soft Underbelly of Security....................152
B. Religion's Key Role in U.S. Foreign Policy....................173
PART V: GROUNDS FOR INTERVENTION....................193
A. Whose Security? The Responsibility to Protect....................193
B. Responsibility as an International Communitarian Principle....................199
C. A Second Duty: ToPrevent?....................204
PART VI: SECURITY REQUIRES A NEW GLOBAL ARCHITECTURE....................208
A. The Third Ought to Be First....................209
B. Who Will Attack?....................220
C. A Strategic Shift: From Controlled Maintenance to Deproliferation....................234
D. Muscular, Moral Power....................243
NOTES....................249
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS....................295
INDEX....................297