The Jackson School of Global Affairs Colloquium in International Security Studies presents
Sean Case, a Henry A. Kissinger Visiting Scholars Postdoctoral Fellow with the Johnson Center for the Study of American Diplomacy:
“In the Balance: The Birth of American International Relations and the “Defense” of the Free World.”
Sean Case,is an interdisciplinary scholar who bridges modern American political and intellectual history with international relations, Case will present the proposal for his book manuscript.
The manuscript traces the adoption of balance of power as an animating ideology for U.S. military and defense intellectuals from the end of the First World War to the beginning of the Vietnam War. It examines how the U.S. foreign policy pursuit of international “order” and “stability” paradoxically served as a destabilizing force in the world through the adoption of limited war.