In an article original published by Foreign Affairs, SSP senior fellow, Charles L. Glaser, writes on security dilemmas and how the US should react when they arise.
When a country faces a greedy state, the standard policy prescription is to deter it. In the case of China and Russia, then, the United States should strengthen its military advantages, communicate its resolve, and pursue economic and political policies to weaken these adversaries. When a country faces an insecure state, by contrast, the solution is not so simple. In that case, policymakers must reckon with a key concept in international relations theory: the security dilemma, writes Charles Glaser. Read the full article here.