The Unquiet Frontier: Rising Rivals, Vulnerable Allies, and the Crisis of American Power

allies are diversifying their national-security "menu cards" by beefing up their militaries or even aligning with their aggressors. power in strategically critical regions throughout the world. They show how rising and revisionist powers are putting pressure on our frontier alliescountries like Poland, Israel, and Taiwanto gauge our leaders' commitment to upholding the U.S.-led global order. The Unquiet Frontier explains why the United States needs a new grand strategy that uses strong frontier alliance networks to raise the costs of military aggression in the new century.Jakub Grygiel and Wess Mitchell describe the aggressive methods rival nations are using to test U.S. To cope with these dangerous dynamics, nervous U.S. decline is real, nations such as Russia, Iran, and China are testing Washington's resolve by targeting vulnerable allies at the frontiers of American power. Hoping that U.S. From the Baltic to the South China Sea, newly assertive authoritarian states sense an opportunity to resurrect old empires or build new ones at America's expense. Grygiel and Mitchell reveal how numerous would-be great powers use an arsenal of asymmetric techniques to probe and sift American strength across several regions simultaneously, and how rivals and allies alike are learning from Americ

They remind us that, in the post–Cold War era, geopolitics matters."--H.R. McMaster, Wall Street Journal"Well-argued and incisive. At a time when American foreign policy often seems adrift, the authors' vigorous advocacy of a renewed clear-headed engagement with allies is a bracing contribution to discussions of this ongoing conundrum."--Kirkus"A persuasive case."--Publishers Weekly"Important."--Francis P Sempa, Asian Review of Books"A useful and thoughtful contribution to the most important debate in U.S. Grygiel and Mitchell lay out a highly readable if grim assessment of US alliance relationships , especially with NATO,

Sometimes the author constantly repeats the same thing over and over in the book which was annoying but a good read Decent book that shows how American power can project it's power worldwide but during the post cold war we've kind of back tracked on military expenditures and what's called "retrenchment" back to American policy of lessening defense projection in three regional areas of Europe, Asia and the Middle East. These regions also have major players such as Russia, Iran, and China which exploits American "retrenchment" an example that was discussed in the book was the incursion of Russia into eastern Ukraine in. Qui Audet Adipiscitur said Five Stars. Excellent analysis and argument for continued American engagement with its allies in the outer rimlands adjacent to potential adversaries.. Five Stars Good read

. and Warsaw, Poland. He is the author of Great Powers and Geopolitical Change. Grygiel is a senior fellow-in-residence at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). A. Jakub J. Wess Mitchell is president of the Center for European Policy Analysis, a foreign policy institute with offices in Washington D.C