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Layne, Christopher Distinguished Professor
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Publications
selected publications
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academic article
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Layne, C.
(2018).
The US–Chinese power shift and the end of the Pax Americana. International Affairs.
94(1), 89-111.
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Layne, C.
(2017).
The US foreign policy establishment and grand strategy: how American elites obstruct strategic adjustment. International Politics.
54(3), 260-275.
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Layne, C.
(2015).
Hal Brands. What Good Is Grand Strategy? Power and Purpose in American Statecraft from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW.
120(2), 658-659.
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Layne, C.
(2015).
China and America: Sleepwalking to war?. National Interest.
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Layne, C.
(2015).
Obama’s missed opportunity to pivot away from the middle east. Insight Turkey.
17(3), 11-21.
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Layne, C.
(2012).
The global power shift from west to east. National Interest.
4.
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Layne, C.
(2012).
This Time It’s Real: The End of Unipolarity and the Pax Americana. INTERNATIONAL STUDIES QUARTERLY.
56(1), 203-213.
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Layne, C.
(2011).
America's Global Advantage: US Hegemony and International Cooperation. PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICS.
9(2), 477-479.
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Layne, C.
(2011).
Follies of Power: America's Unipolar Fantasy. PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICS.
9(2), 477-479.
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Layne, C.
(2011).
The unipolar exit: beyond the Pax Americana. Cambridge Review of International Affairs.
24(2), 149-164.
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Layne, C.
(2009).
US Hegemony in a Unipolar World: Here to Stay or Sic Transit Gloria?. International Studies Review.
11(4), 784-787.
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Layne, C.
(2009).
The Waning of U.S. HegemonyMyth or Reality A Review Essay. International Security.
34(1), 147-172.
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LAYNE, C.
(2009).
America’s Middle East grand strategy after Iraq: the moment for offshore balancing has arrived. Review of International Studies.
35(1), 5-25.
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Layne, C.
(2008).
Security Studies and the Use of History: Neville Chamberlain's Grand Strategy Revisited. Security Studies.
17(3), 397-437.
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Layne, C.
(2008).
It's Over, Over There: The Coming Crack-up in Transatlantic Relations. International Politics.
45(3), 325-347.
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Layne, C.
(2008).
China's challenge to US hegemony. CURRENT HISTORY.
107(705), 13-18.
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Layne, C.
(2007).
The American Ascendancy: How the United States Gained and Wielded Global Dominance. By Michael H. Hunt. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. 404 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3090-1.). JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY.
94(3), 1018-1018.
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Layne, C.
(2007).
Who Lost Iraq and Why It Matters. World Policy Journal.
24(3), 38-52.
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Layne, C.
(2006).
Impotent Power. National Interest.
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Layne, C.
(2006).
The Unipolar Illusion Revisited: The Coming End of the United States' Unipolar Moment. International Security.
31(2), 7-41.
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Layne, C.
(2006).
A Matter of Historical Debate. FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
85(6), 181-182.
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LAYNE, C.
(2002).
THE “POSTER CHILD FOR OFFENSIVE REALISM”: AMERICA AS A GLOBAL HEGEMON. Security Studies.
12(2), 120-164.
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Layne, C.
(2002).
Offshore balancing revisited. The Washington Quarterly.
25(2), 233-248.
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Layne, C.
(2000).
US hegemony and the perpetuation of NATO. Journal of Strategic Studies.
23(3), 59-91.
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Layne, C.
(1998).
Rethinking American grand strategy: Hegemony or balance of power in the twenty-first century?. World Policy Journal.
15(2), 8-28.
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Layne, C.
(1997).
A house of cards: American strategy toward China. World Policy Journal.
14(3), 77-95.
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Layne, C.
(1997).
From Preponderance to Offshore Balancing: America's Future Grand Strategy. International Security.
22(1), 86-124.
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Layne, C., & Metzger, R. S.
(1995).
Reforming post‐cold war US arms sales policy: The crucial link between exports and the defence industrial base. Journal of Strategic Studies.
18(4), 1-32.
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Layne, C.
(2018).
The US–Chinese power shift and the end of the Pax Americana. International Affairs.
94(1), 89-111.
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book
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Layne, C.
(2007).
The Peace of Illusions American Grand Strategy from 1940 to the Present. Cornell University Press.
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Layne, C., & Thayer, B. A.
(2006).
American empire: A debate
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Layne, C.
(2007).
The Peace of Illusions American Grand Strategy from 1940 to the Present. Cornell University Press.
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chapter
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Layne, C.
(2017).
The sound of distant thunder: The pre-world war i anglo-german rivalry as a model for sino-american relations in the early twenty-first century. Will China's Rise be Peaceful?: The Rise of a Great Power in Theory, History, Politics, and the Future.
(pp. 123-142).
Oxford University Press.
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Layne, C.
(2013).
Grand Strategy. Lynch, T. J. (Eds.),
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History.
Oxford University Press.
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Clark, S., & Hoque, S.
(2011).
Debating a Post-American World. Debating a Post-American World: What Lies Ahead?.
(pp. 41-46).
Routledge.
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Parmar, I., & Cox, M.
(2010).
Soft Power and US Foreign Policy. Soft Power and US Foreign Policy: Theoretical, Historical and Contemporary Perspectives.
(pp. 51-82).
Routledge.
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Layne, C.
(2004).
China’s Role in American Grand Strategy: Partner, Regional Power, or Great Power Rival?. Rolfe, J. G. (Eds.),
The Asia-Pacific A Region in Transition.
(pp. 54-80).
Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies.
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Layne, C.
(2004).
Iraq and Beyond: ‘Old Europe’ and the End of U.S. Hegemony. Balis, C. V., & Serfaty, S. (Eds.),
Visions of America and Europe September 11, Iraq, and Transatlantic Relations.
(pp. 47-69).
CSIS.
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Layne, C.
(1998).
Why Die for Gdansk? NATO Enlargement and American Security Interests. Carpenter, T. G., & Conry, B. (Eds.),
NATO Enlargement Illusions and Reality.
(pp. 53-70).
Cato Institute.
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Layne, C.
(1995).
Minding Our Own Business: The Case for American Non-Participation in International Peacekeeping/Peacemaking Operations. Daniel, D., & Hayes, B. C. (Eds.),
Beyond Traditional Peacekeeping.
(pp. 85-100).
Palgrave Macmillan UK.
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Layne, C.
(1994).
American Grand Strategy After the Cold War: Primacy or Blue Water?. Hermann, C. F. (Eds.),
American Defence Annual, 1994.
(pp. 19-43).
Lexington Books.
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Layne, C.
(1993).
Rethinking NATO and Other Alliances in a Multipolar World. Boaz, D., & Crane, E. H. (Eds.),
Market Liberalism A Paradigm for the 21st Century.
(pp. 243-258).
Cato Institute.
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Layne, C.
(1990).
Ambivalent Past, Uncertain Future: America’s Role in Post-Cold War Europe. Carpenter, T. G. (Eds.),
NATO at 40 Confronting a Changing World.
(pp. 239-262).
Cato Institute.
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Layne, C.
(1989).
Europe Between the Superpowers: New Trends in East-West relations. Carpenter, T. G. (Eds.),
Collective Defense Or Strategic Independence? Alternative Strategies for the Future.
(pp. 49-68).
Cato Institute.
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Layne, C.
(1989).
NATO and the Next Administration. Crane, E. H., & Boaz, D. (Eds.),
An American Vision Policies for the '90s.
(pp. 147-166).
Cato Institute.
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Layne, C.
(2017).
The sound of distant thunder: The pre-world war i anglo-german rivalry as a model for sino-american relations in the early twenty-first century. Will China's Rise be Peaceful?: The Rise of a Great Power in Theory, History, Politics, and the Future.
(pp. 123-142).
Oxford University Press.
editor of
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chapter
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Layne, C.
(2006).
Reply to Bradley Thayer: The illusion of the American empire
Routledge.
121-137.
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Layne, C., & Thayer, B. A.
(2006).
The case against the American empire
Routledge.
51-102.
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Layne, C.
(2006).
Reply to Bradley Thayer: The illusion of the American empire
Routledge.
121-137.
Research
awards and honors
Teaching
teaching activities
- INTA605 American Foreign Policy Instructor
- INTA606 Int Politics Thry Pract Instructor
- INTA623 Grand Strategy Instructor
Background
education and training
- Ph.D. in Political Science (International Relations), University of California, Berkeley - (Berkeley, California, United States) 1981
- LL.M. in International Law, University of Virginia - (Charlottesville, Virginia, United States) 1975
- J.D., University of Southern California - (Los Angeles, California, United States) 1974
- B.A. in International Relations (Cum Laude), University of Southern California - (Los Angeles, California, United States) 1971
Contact
first name
- Christopher
has last name
- Layne
mailing address
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Texas A&M University
International Affairs
4220 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4220
USA
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- clayne@tamu.edu