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For Imbrie, recent egregious mistakes in the use of force also account for most strategic mistakes under President Donald Trump, propelling Washington towards unilateralism. Domestic partisanship, racial tensions, and economic predicaments have exacerbated the United States' decline as a superpower. Imbrie underscores that to avoid the fate of Habsburg Austria, the United States should adopt multilateralism towards its democratic allies to increase burden sharing in response to transnational threats. [Extracted from the article]

Chirot, Daniel You Say You Want a Revolution? To discern the dynamics of major revolutions and to answer why revolutions led to pure conflicts, the author traces the grassroots in the appalling nature of most revolutionary outbreaks over the last centuries. Chirot presents a detailed depiction of consequential revolutionary outbreaks starting from the French revolution of 1789 as the iconic representation of a modern violent revolution to Russia's 1917 Bolshevik and also the Chinese and Iranian revolutions. [Extracted from the article]