The United States has been the dominant power since WWII, militarily, economically, and politically. We have used that dominance to exercise a degree of hegemony that has increased since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Conditions that allowed that dominance have changed dramatically.
We are facing uncharted waters that demand new policies, but there are sharp ideological differences among our body politic on how to navigate these waters. The profound contrast between the Bush and Obama concepts of national security strategy highlight these differences.
In a series of essays, I have addressed several issues in both the domestic and international arenas, going beyond the dominant popular notion of national security that focuses on military power as the central element of national security. In addition to the economic and political dimensions, I include sociological factors such as morality and national will. The essays on the international segment of national security are in the Strategy and Policy file; the essays related to the domestic arena are in the Domestic Issues file. Other essays are in the General Issues file. Readings for two courses I teach are in the Constitution and Ethics files.
