Power on the Precipice: The Six Choices America Faces in a Turbulent World: by Andrew Imbrie, New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2020, 272 pp., £20.00/$27.50 (hardcover), ISBN 9780300243505.

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]