A Balance of Titans

"Independent Institute scholar Ivan Eland again proves that he is an especially insightful and incisive analyst of world affairs. In his new book, A Balance of Titans, Eland provides an important blueprint for U.S. policymakers to navigate the delicate and dangerous problems of a world in which U.S. hegemony clearly has come to an end. His proposed new foreign policy based on realism and restraint to deal with a world that is increasingly multipolar strategically, as well as economically, offers the best opportunity by far to keep America at peace while protecting this country's vital interests."

"In A Balance of Titans, Ivan Eland delivers a timely critique of US security policy, arguing that it has become outdated and fiscally overextended due to the influence of the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex (MICC). His proposal for "Independent Internationalism" charts a course toward a more restrained and fiscally responsible foreign policy. Eland provides a framework for reducing America’s military footprint, avoiding costly overseas adventures, and returning to the founders' vision of limited government engagement abroad. This book offers a significant first step for constraining the scale and scope of government power."

"We often hear that 'less is more.' In the case of US foreign policy, it's absolutely true. Foreign policy maven Ivan Eland shows, with an informed treatment of US wars, that we would be safer if the United States retreated to a modern Monroe Doctrine and quit interfering around the world. As a bonus, he shows that US military spending could decline by half. Read and learn."

"A Balance of Titans provides realist international relations recommendations for profitable American engagement with the ascendant multipolar world. Eland is right that while weapons manufacturers make the weapons and lobby for their purchase and deployment, it is the central US state that has played the game of global empire for more than 100 years. It is this game that must stop before financial collapse and/or general nuclear war destroy our civilization. Eland evokes a retrenched and restrained American power that even DC’s apparatchiks could learn to love."

"Ivan Eland proposes a bold new foreign policy for the United States, one that would encourage other nations to share the burdens of policing the world, saving the United States billions in defense spending and making peace more likely and sustainable."