Seyom Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 3744045 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Seyom Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Seyom |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 28 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The New Nuclear MADness
Major powers are freshly integrating the use of nuclear weapons in actual combat into their strategies
Purposes and pitfalls of war by proxy
The structure of the emergent global system – a volatile ‘polyarchy’ of state and non-state actors – accentuates temptations to employ military proxies, but also multiplies the risks when the priorities of the patron states and their proxies diverge. The motivations of proxies and the interests of the countries employing them are hardly ever sufficiently close, and the command-and-control arrangements sufficiently tight, to ensure that the battle…
Higher Realism
For dealing with an increasingly chaotic and violence-prone world, Higher Realism offers a grand strategy that rejects the imperial thrust of recent U.S. foreign policy as well as the conventional "realist" approach of focusing only on U.S. interests. The emerging world order is one in which many powers of various sorts-states and nonstate actors, large and small, allies and adversaries-have an essential role. Seyom Brown calls this the emergent …
Higher Realism
Beyond MAD
New presidential guidance may, finally, render obsolete the Mutual Assured Destruction paradigm that has structured US nuclear strategy and arms-control policy for over 50 years – if a security dilemma can be avoided
Imbalance of Power
A stellar group of authors provocatively debate the nature of the current international order and the role of the US within it
The Illusion of Control
Seyom BrownWashington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2003. 196pp, US$46.95 cloth (ISBN 0-8157-0262-0), US$18.95 paper (ISBN 0-8157-0263-9)As American military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan deepens, American citizens and foreign policy experts consider and debate US interventionist policies in today's international system. Seyom Brown, the Lawrence A. Wien professor of international cooperation at Brandeis University, informs this debate …
The Illusion of Control
This provocative book assesses the implications of a disturbing trend in U.S. security policy: an increased willingness to use military force as an instrument of diplomacy. In The Illusion of Control , Seyom Brown shows how U.S. officials are relying on force to counter a wide range of threats to America's global interests --eclipsing previous strategies that restricted the use of military force to situations in which the country's vital interest…
American Foreign Policy and the Limits of Military Might
The Faces of Power
Explaining the Transformation of World Politics
Despite the new assertiveness of hardliners in the Soviet Union, few statespersons or analysts doubt that the Cold War is over. There is considerable disagreement among academics, however, over the causes of the collapse in 1 989-90 of the global rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union that had polarized world politics for some forty years. Like physicists observing an unanticipated implosion and trying to find in it confirmation o…
New Forces, Old Forces and the Future of World Politics
Introduction: the new, the old and the durable. Part 1 Legacies: the inherited foundations - basic structure and norms of the nation-state system precursors of the modern state system the development of the modern international system - from classical balance to Cold War biopolarity. Part 2 The demise of the Cold War: changing geopolitical realities implosion of the Soviet sphere theories about the end of the Cold War post-Cold War disorder. Part…
The Causes and Prevention of War
The World Polity and the Nation-State System
Facts and Analysis for the Golden State
The Crises of Power
Journal Article The Crises of Power: An Interpretation of United States Foreign Policy during the Kissinger Years. By Seyom Brown. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. xi + 170 pp. Notes and index. $10.95.) Get access Joan Hoff Wilson Joan Hoff Wilson University Arizona State Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 1, June 1981, Pages 188–189, https://doi.org/10…
An End to Grand Strategy
Regimes for the Ocean, Outer Space, and Weather
The allocation of resources among users of the oceans, outer space and the weather is discussed. Attention is given to the international management of maritime navigation, the control of fisheries, offshore oil and gas exploitation, mineral exploitation in the deep seabed (especially the mining of manganese nodules), and the regulation of oceanographic studies. The management of outer space is considered, with special reference to remote sensing …
A Cooling-Off Period for U. S.-Soviet Relations
The New Legitimacy
New Forces in World Politics
Toward mutual accountability in the nonterrestrial realms
The inherited international regimes for the ocean, outer space, and the weather-based largely on the principles of open access and free use-are inappropriate to the emerging needs in these realms for efficient and equitable allocation of resources and for conflict management. Neither a substantially greater exercise by national governments of management authority, nor a marginalist approach to increasing the authority of functionally-specific int…
Diplomats at Sea
The Changing Essence of Power
The Faces of Power
Constancy and Change Since World War II Purpose and Power: An Overview The Truman Administration The Changing Essence of Power The Eisenhower Era The Shattering of Expectations The Implementation of Containment The Kennedy-Johnson Years A New Look for Less Expensive Power Statecraft Under Nixon and Ford Waging Peace: The Eisenhower Face The Carter Period Crises and Complications The Reagan Era: Realism or Romanticism? Enhancing the Arsenal of Pow…
Toward mutual accountability in the nonterrestrial realms
The inherited international regimes for the ocean, outer space, and the weather-based largely on the principles of open access and free use-are inappropriate to the emerging needs in these realms for efficient and equitable allocation of resources and for conflict management. Neither a substantially greater exercise by national governments of management authority, nor a marginalist approach to increasing the authority of functionally-specific int…
Explaining the Transformation of World Politics
Despite the new assertiveness of hardliners in the Soviet Union, few statespersons or analysts doubt that the Cold War is over. There is considerable disagreement among academics, however, over the causes of the collapse in 1 989-90 of the global rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union that had polarized world politics for some forty years. Like physicists observing an unanticipated implosion and trying to find in it confirmation o…
Purposes and pitfalls of war by proxy
The structure of the emergent global system – a volatile ‘polyarchy’ of state and non-state actors – accentuates temptations to employ military proxies, but also multiplies the risks when the priorities of the patron states and their proxies diverge. The motivations of proxies and the interests of the countries employing them are hardly ever sufficiently close, and the command-and-control arrangements sufficiently tight, to ensure that the battle…
The Causes and Prevention of War
The Faces of Power
The Illusion of Control
Seyom BrownWashington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2003. 196pp, US$46.95 cloth (ISBN 0-8157-0262-0), US$18.95 paper (ISBN 0-8157-0263-9)As American military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan deepens, American citizens and foreign policy experts consider and debate US interventionist policies in today's international system. Seyom Brown, the Lawrence A. Wien professor of international cooperation at Brandeis University, informs this debate …
The Illusion of Control
This provocative book assesses the implications of a disturbing trend in U.S. security policy: an increased willingness to use military force as an instrument of diplomacy. In The Illusion of Control , Seyom Brown shows how U.S. officials are relying on force to counter a wide range of threats to America's global interests --eclipsing previous strategies that restricted the use of military force to situations in which the country's vital interest…
New Forces, Old Forces and the Future of World Politics
Introduction: the new, the old and the durable. Part 1 Legacies: the inherited foundations - basic structure and norms of the nation-state system precursors of the modern state system the development of the modern international system - from classical balance to Cold War biopolarity. Part 2 The demise of the Cold War: changing geopolitical realities implosion of the Soviet sphere theories about the end of the Cold War post-Cold War disorder. Part…
Regimes for the Ocean, Outer Space, and Weather
The allocation of resources among users of the oceans, outer space and the weather is discussed. Attention is given to the international management of maritime navigation, the control of fisheries, offshore oil and gas exploitation, mineral exploitation in the deep seabed (especially the mining of manganese nodules), and the regulation of oceanographic studies. The management of outer space is considered, with special reference to remote sensing …
A Cooling-Off Period for U. S.-Soviet Relations
The New Legitimacy
The Changing Essence of Power
Invulnerable Retaliatory Capability and Arms Control
A consensus seems to have emerged among government decision-makers, military strategists, and scholars that an invulnerable nuclear retaliatory capability is a national goal of high priority, if not top priority. The Kennedy Administration, to a much greater degree than its predecessor, has given indication that the rationale and ingredients of a “second-strike” nuclear strategy are understood and being concretely programmed into defense planning…
An Alternative to the Grand Design
We hear the term less these days. But our NATO policies, our policies toward the Common Market, and our reactions to French assertiveness still give the appearance of struggling to continue along the lines of the “Grand Design” for Atlantic Partnership. As frustrations have grown the momentum of the thrust has waned; but the direction, not yet feeling the impact of alternative formulations, is sustained
The Faces of Power
Constancy and Change Since World War II Purpose and Power: An Overview The Truman Administration The Changing Essence of Power The Eisenhower Era The Shattering of Expectations The Implementation of Containment The Kennedy-Johnson Years A New Look for Less Expensive Power Statecraft Under Nixon and Ford Waging Peace: The Eisenhower Face The Carter Period Crises and Complications The Reagan Era: Realism or Romanticism? Enhancing the Arsenal of Pow…
The Faces of Power
Journal Article The Faces of Power: Constancy and Change in United States Poreign Policy From Truman to Johnson. By Seyom Brown. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1968. xii + 397 pp. Notes and index. $8.95.) Get access Robert A. Divine Robert A. Divine University of Texas, Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 55, Issue 2, September 1968, Pages 429–430, https://doi.…
The Changing Essence of Power
Diplomats at Sea
New Forces in World Politics
Toward mutual accountability in the nonterrestrial realms
The inherited international regimes for the ocean, outer space, and the weather-based largely on the principles of open access and free use-are inappropriate to the emerging needs in these realms for efficient and equitable allocation of resources and for conflict management. Neither a substantially greater exercise by national governments of management authority, nor a marginalist approach to increasing the authority of functionally-specific int…
The New Legitimacy
A Cooling-Off Period for U. S.-Soviet Relations
An End to Grand Strategy
Regimes for the Ocean, Outer Space, and Weather
The allocation of resources among users of the oceans, outer space and the weather is discussed. Attention is given to the international management of maritime navigation, the control of fisheries, offshore oil and gas exploitation, mineral exploitation in the deep seabed (especially the mining of manganese nodules), and the regulation of oceanographic studies. The management of outer space is considered, with special reference to remote sensing …
The Crises of Power
Journal Article The Crises of Power: An Interpretation of United States Foreign Policy during the Kissinger Years. By Seyom Brown. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. xi + 170 pp. Notes and index. $10.95.) Get access Joan Hoff Wilson Joan Hoff Wilson University Arizona State Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 1, June 1981, Pages 188–189, https://doi.org/10…
Facts and Analysis for the Golden State
The World Polity and the Nation-State System
The Causes and Prevention of War
New Forces, Old Forces and the Future of World Politics
Introduction: the new, the old and the durable. Part 1 Legacies: the inherited foundations - basic structure and norms of the nation-state system precursors of the modern state system the development of the modern international system - from classical balance to Cold War biopolarity. Part 2 The demise of the Cold War: changing geopolitical realities implosion of the Soviet sphere theories about the end of the Cold War post-Cold War disorder. Part…
Explaining the Transformation of World Politics
Despite the new assertiveness of hardliners in the Soviet Union, few statespersons or analysts doubt that the Cold War is over. There is considerable disagreement among academics, however, over the causes of the collapse in 1 989-90 of the global rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union that had polarized world politics for some forty years. Like physicists observing an unanticipated implosion and trying to find in it confirmation o…
The Faces of Power
American Foreign Policy and the Limits of Military Might
The Illusion of Control
This provocative book assesses the implications of a disturbing trend in U.S. security policy: an increased willingness to use military force as an instrument of diplomacy. In The Illusion of Control , Seyom Brown shows how U.S. officials are relying on force to counter a wide range of threats to America's global interests --eclipsing previous strategies that restricted the use of military force to situations in which the country's vital interest…
The Illusion of Control
Seyom BrownWashington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2003. 196pp, US$46.95 cloth (ISBN 0-8157-0262-0), US$18.95 paper (ISBN 0-8157-0263-9)As American military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan deepens, American citizens and foreign policy experts consider and debate US interventionist policies in today's international system. Seyom Brown, the Lawrence A. Wien professor of international cooperation at Brandeis University, informs this debate …
Imbalance of Power
A stellar group of authors provocatively debate the nature of the current international order and the role of the US within it
Beyond MAD
New presidential guidance may, finally, render obsolete the Mutual Assured Destruction paradigm that has structured US nuclear strategy and arms-control policy for over 50 years – if a security dilemma can be avoided
Higher Realism
For dealing with an increasingly chaotic and violence-prone world, Higher Realism offers a grand strategy that rejects the imperial thrust of recent U.S. foreign policy as well as the conventional "realist" approach of focusing only on U.S. interests. The emerging world order is one in which many powers of various sorts-states and nonstate actors, large and small, allies and adversaries-have an essential role. Seyom Brown calls this the emergent …
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