In this lucid and theoretically sophisticated book, G. John Ikenberry focuses on the oil price shocks of 1973–74 and 1979, which placed extraordinary new burdens on governments worldwide and particularly on that of the United States. Reasons of State examines the response of the United States to these and other challenges and identifies both the capacities of the American state to deal with rapid international political and economic change and the limitations that constrain national policy.
- ISBN10 0801494885
- ISBN13 9780801494888
- Publish Date 23 August 1988
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 July 2000
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Cornell University Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 234
- Language English