Publication

This paper analyzes US statecraft in a politically unipolar world. The author argues that US hegemony in both the international military and trade arenas, and the freedom that this gives the US, imply that the choice of security and trade strategies will be determined in large part by institutional features of US domestic politics. A particular focus is the number of domestic veto players in the national security and trade policymaking arenas. The paper states that such features will significantly influence the extent to which the security and trade elements of statecraft can be made to work in tandem in the future.