Addicted to Security: Globalized Terrorism and the Inevitability of American Unilateralism

Examines US responses to emerging post-11 September (2001) terrorism & proliferation threats & offers a range of predictions regarding future US foreign & security policies. It is argued that domestic & external forces are cultivating an environment wherein security is the prime focus of US policy making. This is demonstrated via discussion of the inevitability of high-impact terrorism & unilateral US responses, including the doctrine of preemption. How US unilateralism will impact European- & Canadian-US relations as well as European & Canadian foreign, economic, & security policy is then considered. In closing, it is asserted that Canada ought to support the US at a time when the latter is seeking allies or else risk fading into irrelevance. J. Zendejas