If the economy is being stimulated then the country will be growing its gross domestic product and the power of influence is has on other countries without being onshore. This domestic use of money will promote the peace of the citizens and control the resentment due to the citizens not agreeing with the intervening and use of tax dollars in foreign affairs. The United States is known for trying to police the world which is a very costly and expensive practice. Mearsheimer shows this by stating “To restore the regional balance of power, the George H. W. Bush administration sent an expeditionary force to liberate Kuwait and smash Saddam’s military machine” and also “Tellingly, when U.S. policymakers deviated from that strategy—as they did in Vietnam, where the United States had no vital interests—the result was a costly failure”. Due to that these conflicts with Saddam and Vietnam were very costly promotes the idea of offshore balancing to be more effective if you truly remain offshore. The author uses a realist perspective due to using past events to gauge how and what outcomes will be most likely to occur in the future. Mearsheimer uses facts and past events to predict the future instead of hopes and feelings to predict future
If the economy is being stimulated then the country will be growing its gross domestic product and the power of influence is has on other countries without being onshore. This domestic use of money will promote the peace of the citizens and control the resentment due to the citizens not agreeing with the intervening and use of tax dollars in foreign affairs. The United States is known for trying to police the world which is a very costly and expensive practice. Mearsheimer shows this by stating “To restore the regional balance of power, the George H. W. Bush administration sent an expeditionary force to liberate Kuwait and smash Saddam’s military machine” and also “Tellingly, when U.S. policymakers deviated from that strategy—as they did in Vietnam, where the United States had no vital interests—the result was a costly failure”. Due to that these conflicts with Saddam and Vietnam were very costly promotes the idea of offshore balancing to be more effective if you truly remain offshore. The author uses a realist perspective due to using past events to gauge how and what outcomes will be most likely to occur in the future. Mearsheimer uses facts and past events to predict the future instead of hopes and feelings to predict future