Author Meets Critics: Dale Copeland's "A World Safe for Commerce"

Session Submission Type: Author meet critics

Session Description

The panel of experts from both international security and conflict studies as well as international political economy will discuss Copeland recent book with Princeton UP: _A World Safe for Commerce: American Foreign Policy from the Revolution to the Rise of China_. The book offers three things of interest to international relations scholars: (1) a new dynamic realist theory that integrates the strengths of both offensive realism and defensive realism; (2) detailed documentary-based case studies of all the main American foreign policy cases from 1750 to 1991; and (3) a detailed final chapter on the future of US-China relations, utilizing both the theory and the empirical evidence. The book also provides a new methodology for doing qualitative research focusing on the varying causal roles that different factors may play as part of the "recipe" for conflict and war.

Sub Unit

• Division 21: Conflict Processes

Chair

• Jack S. Levy Rutgers University

Presenters

• Jack L. Snyder Columbia University

• Christina Davis Harvard University

• Stephan Haggard University of California, San Diego

• David A. Lake University of California, San Diego

• Dale Copeland University of Virginia