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95 Foreign Aff. 70 (2016)
The Case for Offshore Balancing: A Superior U.S. Grand Stategy

handle is hein.journals/fora95 and id is 750 raw text is: The Case for Offshore Balancing A Superior U.S. Grand Strategy John J Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt or the first time in recent memory, large numbers of Americans are openly questioning their country's grand strategy. An April 2016 Pew poll found that 57 percent of Americans agree that the United States should deal with its own problems and let others deal with theirs the best they can. On the campaign trail, both the Democrat Bernie Sanders and the Republican Donald Trump found receptive audiences whenever they questioned the United States' penchant for promoting democracy, subsidizing allies' defense, and intervening militarily-leaving only the likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton to defend the status quo. Americans' distaste for the prevailing grand strategy should come as no surprise, given its abysmal record over the past quarter century. In Asia, India, Pakistan, and North Korea are expanding their nuclear arsenals, and China is challenging the status quo in regional waters. In Europe, Russia has annexed Crimea, and U.S. relations with Moscow have sunk to new lows since the Cold War. U.S. forces are still fight- ing in Afghanistan and Iraq, with no victory in sight. Despite losing most of its original leaders, al Qaeda has metastasized across the re- gion. The Arab world has fallen into turmoil-in good part due to the United States' decisions to effect regime change in Iraq and Libya and its modest efforts to do the same in Syria-and the Islamic State, or isis, has emerged out of the chaos. Repeated U.S. attempts to broker Israeli-Palestinian peace have failed, leaving a two-state solution further JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER is R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. STEPHEN M. WALT is Robert and Ren6e Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School. Follow him on Twitter @StephenWalt. 70 FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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