Earl C Ravenal
Biographic Data
| ID | 974632 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Earl C Ravenal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Earl C |
| FAMILY NAME | Ravenal |
| SIGNATURE | RAVENAL E C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cato Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
What’s Empire Got to Do With It? The Derivation of America’s Foreign Policy
The common claim that American foreign policy is "imperial" is contradicted by the fact that the actual, definable historical empires have characteristically exercised formal, as well as decisive, control over their peripheral dependencies—properties that the keenest analysts do not ascribe to the geopolitical system that has been constructed by the United States. Why, then, the ascription of "empire" to the United States? One reason is to condem…
Ignorant armies: The state, the public, and the making of foreign policy
A state's foreign policy is constrained by parameters that inhere in the structure of the international system and in the nation's own political‐constitutional, social, and economic systems. The latter, domestic parameters, include “public opinion.” Because the public is largely ignorant of foreign affairs, policy‐making elites have wide scope for acting more rationally than would otherwise be possible, although public opinion operates on the sec…
Foreign Policy in an Uncontrollable World
Designing Defense for a New World Order: The Military Budget in 1992 and Beyond
Designing Defense for a New World Order
The Reagan doctrine in its strategic and moral context
(1990). The Reagan doctrine in its strategic and moral context. Small Wars & Insurgencies: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 22-38
The Case for Adjustment
Large-Scale Foreign Policy Change: The Nixon Doctrine as History and Portent
Teaching American foreign policy
Europe without America: The Erosion of Nato
Defining Defense: The 1985 Military Budget
Counterforce and Alliance: The Ultimate Connection
I America's drift to counterforce nuclear strategies is neither perverse nor accidental. The emphasis on counterforce became a notable aspect of the nuclear strategy of the Carter Administration, at least in its promulgation of Presidential Directive 59 in July 1980 and its promotion of the MX intercontinental missile; and it continues in the strategy of the Reagan Administration, embodied in the weapons system decisions of October 2, 1981. To gr…
The Debate over No First Use
Doing Nothing
Walking on Water in the Middle East
Never Again: Learning from America's Foreign Policy Failures
Documentation: U.S. National Security,1977-2001
Nixon's Challenge to Carter: No More Mr. Nice Guy
Soviet Strength and U.S. Purpose
After Schlesinger: Something Has to Give
An Autopsy of Collective Security
A logical analysis of the inherent contradictions that lie at the root of the concept of collective leads to pessimism about the establishment or maintenance of this form of international system. Particularly, the essential condition of collective security-concert-and the essential function of collective security-enforcement-are not only improbable in themselves, empirically, but are arrayed in a logical contradiction, one with the other.' Collec…
Who Needs It
Can We Afford Not to Have It
Consequences of the End Game in Vietnam
"Was Vietnam a "Mistake
Counterforce and Alliance: The Ultimate Connection
I America's drift to counterforce nuclear strategies is neither perverse nor accidental. The emphasis on counterforce became a notable aspect of the nuclear strategy of the Carter Administration, at least in its promulgation of Presidential Directive 59 in July 1980 and its promotion of the MX intercontinental missile; and it continues in the strategy of the Reagan Administration, embodied in the weapons system decisions of October 2, 1981. To gr…
The Case for Adjustment
Ignorant armies: The state, the public, and the making of foreign policy
A state's foreign policy is constrained by parameters that inhere in the structure of the international system and in the nation's own political‐constitutional, social, and economic systems. The latter, domestic parameters, include “public opinion.” Because the public is largely ignorant of foreign affairs, policy‐making elites have wide scope for acting more rationally than would otherwise be possible, although public opinion operates on the sec…
Europe without America: The Erosion of Nato
Never Again: Learning from America's Foreign Policy Failures
Who Needs It
Consequences of the End Game in Vietnam
Designing Defense for a New World Order: The Military Budget in 1992 and Beyond
Doing Nothing
The Nixon Doctrine and Our Asian Commitments
Approaching China, Defending Taiwan
The Political-Military Gap
The Nixon Doctrine and Our Asian Commitments
Approaching China, Defending Taiwan
The Case for Strategic Disengagement
"Was Vietnam a "Mistake
Policy Relevance and Policy Models
An Autopsy of Collective Security
A logical analysis of the inherent contradictions that lie at the root of the concept of collective leads to pessimism about the establishment or maintenance of this form of international system. Particularly, the essential condition of collective security-concert-and the essential function of collective security-enforcement-are not only improbable in themselves, empirically, but are arrayed in a logical contradiction, one with the other.' Collec…
Who Needs It
Can We Afford Not to Have It
Consequences of the End Game in Vietnam
Soviet Strength and U.S. Purpose
After Schlesinger: Something Has to Give
Documentation: U.S. National Security,1977-2001
Nixon's Challenge to Carter: No More Mr. Nice Guy
Walking on Water in the Middle East
Never Again: Learning from America's Foreign Policy Failures
Doing Nothing
Counterforce and Alliance: The Ultimate Connection
I America's drift to counterforce nuclear strategies is neither perverse nor accidental. The emphasis on counterforce became a notable aspect of the nuclear strategy of the Carter Administration, at least in its promulgation of Presidential Directive 59 in July 1980 and its promotion of the MX intercontinental missile; and it continues in the strategy of the Reagan Administration, embodied in the weapons system decisions of October 2, 1981. To gr…
The Debate over No First Use
Defining Defense: The 1985 Military Budget
Europe without America: The Erosion of Nato
Teaching American foreign policy
The Reagan doctrine in its strategic and moral context
(1990). The Reagan doctrine in its strategic and moral context. Small Wars & Insurgencies: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 22-38
The Case for Adjustment
Large-Scale Foreign Policy Change: The Nixon Doctrine as History and Portent
Political science (27 works) · Law (16 works) · Law (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (11 works) · Political economy (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Law and economics (7 works) · Development economics (6 works) · Foreign policy (6 works)