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"Assesses two mainstays of international relations, balance of power and balance of threat, using the case of US balancing against the Soviet Union in the later Cold War. It also proposes balance of military capabilities, which uses the offense-defense theory to argue that countries balance against the ability of others to conquer or compel them. Power, Threat, or Military Capabilities finds that the US was more powerful than the Soviet Union so US behavior is not explained by balance of power. The US did not perceive the Soviet Union as likely to initiate war or to run risks that might lead to a war so US behavior is not explained by balance of threat. The book determines that the US was concerned about its ability to defend Europe and the Persian Gulf so US behavior is explained by balance of military capabilities."--Back cover

Michael Swaine, author of the outstanding The Military & Political Succession in China (1992), and his fellow RAND analyst Ashley Tellis have written a very good book about Chinese security in both historical and fu- ture perspective. It will certainly be of inter- est to the policy community, as it should be to all who work on Asian security. Swaine and Tellis define grand strategy as a country's "basic approach to political- military security." China's grand strategy seeks to preserve domestic order, defend against external threats, and eventually attain "geopolitical influence as a major