Christopher Layne

Christopher Layne (born November 2, 1949) is Robert M. Gates Chair in Intelligence and National Security at the George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. An international relations theorist, he is a neorealist and critic of liberal internationalism.

Works

Books

• The Peace of Illusions: American Grand Strategy from 1940 to the Present (Cornell, 2006)
• American Empire: A Debate, with Bradley A. Thayer (Routledge, 2006)

Academic papers and articles

• "The Real Conservative Agenda" (Foreign Policy, Winter, 1985-1986)
• "Atlanticism without NATO" (Foreign Policy, Summer, 1987)
• "Superpower Disengagement" (Foreign Policy, Winter, 1989-1990)
• "U.S. Troops Mustn't Be the Obstacle" (Los Angeles Times, 1990)
• "Why the Gulf War Was Not in the National Interest" (The Atlantic Monthly, 1991)
• "The Unipolar Illusion: Why New Great Powers Will Rise" (International Security, 1993)
• "American Hegemony: Without an Enemy" by Christopher Layne and Benjamin Schwarz (Foreign Policy, Autumn, 1993)
• "Kant or Cant: The Myth of the Democratic Peace" (International Security, 1994)
• "The Democratic Peace" by Bruce Russett, Christopher Layne, David E. Spiro, and Michael W. Doyle (International Security, 1995)
• "From Preponderance to Offshore Balancing: America's Future Grand Strategy" (International Security, 1997)
• "The Case Against Intervention in Kosovo" by Christopher Layne and Benjamin Schwarz (The Nation, 1999)
• "NATO: At 50, It's Time to Quit" by Christopher Layne and Benjamin Schwarz (The Nation, 1999)
• "What's Built Up Must Come Down" (The Washington Post, 1999)
• "A New Grand Strategy" by Christopher Layne and Benjamin Schwarz (The Atlantic Monthly, 2002)
• "Offshore Balancing Revisited" (The Washington Quarterly, 2002)
• "The Right Peace - Conservatives against a war with Iraq" (LA Weekly, 2002)
• "The 'Poster Child For Offensive Realism': America as a Global Hegemon" (Security Studies, winter 2002/3)
• "The Post-Saddam Quagmire - A view from the right" (LA Weekly, 2003)
• "China's Role in American Grand Strategy: Partner, Regional Power, or Great Power Rival?" (The Asia-Pacific: A Region in Transition edited by Jim Rolfe, 2004)
• "America cannot rely on power alone" (Financial Times, 2006)
• "Impotent Power? Re-examining the Nature of America's Hegemonic Power" (National Interest, 2006)
• "The Unipolar Illusion Revisited: The Coming End of the United States's 'Unipolar Moment'" (International Security, 2006)
• "A Matter of Historical Debate" (Foreign Affairs, 2006)
• "Debunking the 1930s Analogy: Neville Chamberlain’s Grand Strategy Re-examined" (REGIS Working Paper no. 21, 2006)
• "Dick Cheney has led America down the road to Hell in Iraq" (The Australian, 2007)
• "Who Lost Iraq and Why It Matters: The Case for Offshore Balancing" (World Policy Journal, 2007)
• "China’s Challenge to U.S. Hegemony" (Current History, 2008)
• "The Waning of U.S. Hegemony—Myth or Reality?: A Review Essay" (International Security, 2009)
• "Twilight of Pax Americana" by Christopher Layne and Benjamin Schwarz (Los Angeles Times, 2009)
• "Petraeus' dubious strategy in Afghanistan" (Chicago Tribune, 2010)
• "Bye bye, Miss American Pie" (The European Magazine, 2011)
• "After the Fall" (FOKUS USA, 2011)
• "A Timely Debate" (The New York Times, 2011)
• "The Real Post-American World - The Pax America's end and the future of world politics" (Debating a Post-American World: What Lies Ahead? edited by Sean Clark, Sabrina Hoque, 2012)
• "This Time It’s Real: The End of Unipolarity and the Pax Americana" (International Studies Quarterly, 2012)
• "Take Up the Slack: Is Grand Strategy Determined by Ambition or Politics?" (The Weekly Standard, 2012)
• "The End of Pax Americana: How Western Decline Became Inevitable" (The Atlantic Monthly, 2012)
• "Zombie hegemony: Will America’s post-World War II liberal international order remain intact?" (Social Sciences in China Press, 2014)
• "America’s view of China is fogged by liberal ideas" (Financial Times, 2014)
• "US must acknowledge China’s ambition" ( Boston Globe, 2014)
• "The Shadow of the Past: Why the Sino-American relationship resembles the pre-1914 Anglo-German Antagonism" (Norwegian Nobel Institute Symposium Paper, 2014)
• "Avoiding a Sino-American Confrontation" (Atlantische Perspectief, 2015)

Book reviews and interviews

• "U.S. Hegemony in a Unipolar World: Here to Stay or Sic Transit Gloria?" (International Studies Review, 2009)
• "Chinese Social Sciences Today Interview with Christopher Layne" (Social Sciences in China Press, 2012)
• "Book discussion on 'Power and Willpower: Why the United States is Not Destined to Decline'" (H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable Reviews, 2013)
• "Book discussion on 'The Rise & Decline of the American “Empire”'" (H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable Reviews, 2014)
• "Book discussion on 'Theory of Unipolar Politics'" (H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable Reviews, 2015)

External links

• Bush School Faculty Profile
• Articles at Cato Institute
• Articles at the American Conservative
• Articles at the National Interest
• Articles at the Moscow Times
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Christopher Layne lecture on Foreign Policy in America's Interest
• Book Review of "The Peace of Illusions: American Grand Strategy from 1940 to the Present" by Peter Gowan
• Christopher Layne at Goodreads