Table of Contents

Preface

Part I: Security First: For Us, Them, And The World
A. A Principled, Realistic Approach
B. Policy Implications for Failing and Newly Liberated States
C. Implications for Failing States
D. Implications for Newly Liberated Nations

Part II: The Limits Of Social Engineering
A. A Primitive Art
B. The Lessons of Democratization
C. The Lessons of Reconstruction and Economic Development
D. The Lessons of Nation-Building

Part III: The True Fault Line: Warriors vs. Preachers
A. Fewer Enemies, More (Potential) Allies: The Global Importance of Illiberal Moderates
B. Violent vs. Persuasive Beliefs in Three Religious Belief Systems
C. Violent and Persuasive Beliefs in Secular Theories of Social Change
D. Islam
E. The Global Importance of the Illiberal Moderate Muslims

Part IV: The Importance Of Moral Culture
A. The Soft Underbelly of Security
B. Religion's Key Role in U.S. Foreign Policy

Part V: Grounds For Intervention
A. Whose Security? The Responsibility to Protect
B. Responsibility as an International Communitarian Principle
C. A Second Duty: To Prevent?

Part VI: Security Requires A New Global Architecture
A. The Third Ought to Be First
B. Who Will Attack?
C. A Strategic Shift: From Controlled Maintenance to Deproliferation
D. Muscular, Moral Power

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Preface SECURITY FIRST: FOR A MUSCULAR, MORAL FOREIGN POLICY

Part I SECURITY FIRST: FOR US, THEM, AND THE WORLD

Ch A. A Principled, Realistic Approach
Tragic Choices and the Role of Values
Moral grounds for the Security First approach
The Empirical Case for a Security First Policy

Ch B. Policy Implications for Failing and Newly Liberated States
The Libya Lesson
Applying the Libya Lesson to Iran and North Korea

Ch C. The Implications for Failing States
Russia, the wrong priorities

Ch D. Implications for Newly Liberated Nations
The Lessons of Afghanistan and Iraq
Starting From Scratch
Implications for Humanitarian Interventions
Democratization by Non-Lethal, Persuasive Means
In Conclusion

Part II THE LIMITS OF SOCIAL ENGINEERING

Ch A. A Primitive Art

Ch B. The Lessons of Democratization
What Democracy Makes
The Record
Germany and Japan: Exceptions that Prove the Rule
The Rise of Faux Democracies
The "Democracy Backlash"
Democracy for Democrats
No More Wiemars
Ways and Means of Transitioning to Democracy

Ch C. The Lessons of Reconstruction and Economic Development
No Security, No Reconstruction
Reconstruction or Economic Development?
What Do 'We' Owe
A Matter of Law
Triage vs. Scattergun Approaches to Reconstruction

Ch D. The Lessons of Nation Building
The Lessons of Kosovo
In Conclusion

Part III THE TRUE FAULT LINE: WARRIORS VS. PREACHERS

Ch A. Fewer Enemies, More (Potential) Allies: The Global Importance of Illiberal Moderates
The Fault Line: Violence vs. Persuasion
Not Extremists vs. Liberals
An Anti-Religion Bias
Are the good Warriors?
Matters of Focus and Terminology
The Normative Importance of The Fault Line
Legalized Violence
Are Psychological and Economic Pressures Coercive?

Ch B. Violent vs. Persuasive Beliefs in Three Religious Belief Systems
Christianity
Judaism
Hinduism

Ch C. Violent and Persuasive Beliefs in Secular Theories of Social Change
The Civil Rights movement
Socialism

Ch D. Islam: The Global Importance of Illiberal Moderates
Coercion with Islam
Traditions of Persuasion Within Islam

Ch E. The Global Importance of the Illiberal Moderates
"Travelers' Notes"
In conclusion

Part IV THE IMPORTANCE OF MORAL CULTURE

Ch A . The Soft Underbelly of Security
Anti-social Behavior and its Consequences
Poor Security Democratic Reversals
The Role of Values in Security
What might be done? A Basic Premise
What is to be done? Specific Measures
In conclusion

Ch B. Religion's Key Role in US foreign policy
Does the First Amendment Apply Overseas?
The normative vacuum
Educational options
Institutionalization of Diversity Within Unity (DWU)
In conclusion

Part V GROUNDS FOR INTERVENTION

Ch A. Whose Security? The Responsibility to Protect
Sovereignty as Responsibility

Ch B. Responsibility as an International Communitarian Principle
The Scope of Responsibility: the Primacy of Life
Threshold Too Low?

Ch C. A second duty: to prevent?

Part VI SECURITY REQUIRES A NEW GLOBAL ARCHITECTURE

Ch A. The Third Ought to be First
Hardening the Targets
Neutralizing Terrorists
The third front: WMD?
The True Culprit

Ch B. Who Will Attack?
The Worst Rogues
What CAN be done
The leading Failure: Russia
Other failing states
There are No 'Good' Governments

Ch C. A Strategic Shift: From Controlled Maintenance to Deproliferation
The Current Approach: Controlled Maintenance
A Distinct Approach: Deproliferation
Can Deterrence Suffice?
Deproliferation: The Next Steps
HEU, Plutonium, and Spent Fuel

Ch D. Muscular, Legitimate Power
Soft AND Hard Power
A New Global Authority: Fighting Terrorism
Deproliferation: As a Division of the new Global Authority
In the Longer Run