United States and containing of adversaries: Buck-Passing framework

Ali Adami; Majid Dashtgerd

Volume 1, Issue 3 , December 2013, , Pages 1-28

Abstract
  John Mearsheimer believes that great powers used two mains strategies in offensive realism to Contain and control the enemies and rivals. 1) Balance 2) controlling rivals through Buck-Passing. The author attemptsto show examples of United States’ efforts to curb adversaries through the second strategy. ...  Read More