Averting Global War Regional Challenges, Overextension, and Options for American Strategy

This book examines major geostrategic, political economic, socio-cultural, and ecological conflicts throughout the world. Each chapter identifies a contemporary conflict and then develops a strategy intended to resolve the situation, so as to avert the possibility of wider regional conflicts, if not the real possibility of major power confrontation.

Hall Gardner’s work focuses on the origins of war, yet more specifically on deliberating the phenomenon of war’s eruption and its regional and global ramifications—with an eye toward developing policies that are intended to prevent, resolve or transform disputes before they result in even more intractable conflicts. He is the author of American Global Strategy and the "War on Terrorism" (2005; 2007); Dangerous Crossroads: Europe, Russia, and the Future of NATO (1997); Surviving the Millennium (1994) He is general editor and contributor, NATO and the European Union: New World New Europe New Threats (2004); co-editor and contributor,The New Transatlantic Agenda: Facing the Challenges of Global Governance (2001); General editor and contributor, Central and Southeastern Europe in Transition: Perspectives on Success and Failure Since 1989 (March 1999)—among many other publications. He is a member of the Committee on Atlantic Studies and of The World Political Forum and is presently Professor of International Relations in the Department of International and Comparative Politics at the American University of Paris.