Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Neoclassical realism, the state, and foreign policy -- Objectives of the volume -- Classical realism, neorealism, and neoclassical realism -- Neoclassical realist conceptions of the state -- The neoclassical realist conception of the international system -- Research questions and contents of the volume -- 2 Threat assessment, the state, and foreign policy: a neoclassical realist model -- How do states identify and assess threats? -- Complex threat identification -- Systemic threats (interstate competition) -- Subsystemic threats (interstate competition) -- Domestic threats (intra-state competition) -- Multitiered threats -- Component power versus aggregate power -- Who are the relevant actors? -- Societal leaders: domestic balance of political power -- Domestic balance of political and economic power -- FPE: grand strategy and the balance of power -- What are the constraints and inducements on the FPE? -- Unconstrained FPE: scenario "A" and scenario "B" -- Constrained FPE: scenario "C" -- Inappropriate balancing -- Conclusion -- 3 Neoclassical realism and strategic calculations: explaining divergent British, French, and Soviet strategies toward Germany between the world wars (1919-1939) -- A political economic interpretation of balancing -- Individual countries' strategic choices in the 1920s -- France -- Britain -- The Soviet Union -- Conclusions on the 1920s -- New strategic calculations as the German threat returns -- France in the 1930s -- Britain in the 1930s -- The Soviet Union in the 1930s -- Conclusions on the 1930s -- Lessons from the 1930s -- Consequences of the failure to balance against Hitler -- Implications for theory -- Policy implications.

4 Neoclassical realism and identity: peril despite profit across the Taiwan Strait -- Micro-foundations in the liberal interdependence literature -- Tribalism as an analytical foundation for neoclassical realism -- Setting the stage: The history of China-Taiwan-US relations -- A tangled web: the link between internal and external competitions -- The tail that wags the dog: Taiwanese identity politics -- Peril despite profit: whither the interdependent peace dividend? -- 5 Neoclassical realism and the national interest: presidents, domestic politics, and major military interventions -- Third image, second image, and military intervention -- Why presidents are reluctant to intervene for domestic political reasons -- A neoclassical realist model of military intervention -- Korea, 1950 -- Vietnam, 1964-1965 -- Iraq, 2001-2006 -- Conclusions -- 6 Neoclassical realism and domestic interest groups -- Neorealism, neoclassical realism, and the state -- Which interest groups and domestic actors matter most? -- Under what international circumstances will domestic actors have the greatest influence? -- Under what domestic circumstances will domestic groups have the greatest influence? -- In what types of states will domestic actors matter most? -- What are domestic actors most likely to affect when they have some influence? -- Conclusion: domestic actors and foreign policy -- 7 Neoclassical realism and resource extraction: State building for future war -- The state and the balance of power in classical realism and neorealism -- Delineating possible internal balancing strategies -- Classical realism on the state and the balance of power -- Neorealist balance of power theory and the "passive military adaptive" state -- Neoclassical realism and the resource-extractive state -- State institutions -- Ideology and nationalism -- Conclusion.

8 Neoclassical realism and state mobilization: expansionist ideology in the age of mass politics -- The puzzle of under-expansion and under-aggression in the twentieth century -- The limits of offensive realism: the need for a mobilizing ideology -- Shared foundations of the fascist and realist state -- Why we see so few cases of expansion in the modern world -- 9 The limits of neoclassical realism: additive and interactive approaches to explaining foreign policy preferences -- Integrating domestic and international factors in theories of foreign policy -- Explaining foreign policy preferences: the case of American Cold War national security policy -- Changing party positions on Cold War national security policy -- Explaining national security policy preferences -- Did changing international conditions cause the switch? -- Could an exclusively domestic condition have caused the party switch? -- Why would the policy implications of military spending have differed for the two parties? -- Conclusion -- 10 Conclusion: The state of neoclassical realism -- The scope of neoclassical realism -- Neoclassical realism versus other theoretical approaches -- Avenues for future research -- Index.