Barry Posen

The Sources of Military Doctrine Posen's first book, The Sources of Military Doctrine: France, Britain, and Germany Between the World Wars, was published by Cornell University Press in 1984. The Sources of Military Doctrine focuses on how military doctrine is formed and how it shapes grand strategy. The book won the 1984 Edgar S. Furniss Book Award from the Mershon Center for International Security Studies and the 1985 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, given annually by the American Political Science Association to the "best book on government, politics or international affairs." Inadvertent Escalation Posen's second book is Inadvertent Escalation: Conventional War and Nuclear Risks, which was published by Cornell University Press in 1991. Restraint Posen's third book is Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy, which was published as part of the Cornell Studies in Security Affairs series in 2014. The book is about two competing American grand strategies: liberal hegemony (which Posen opposes) and restraint (which Posen supports). Restraint contains Posen's critique of liberal hegemony and his explanation for why restraint is a superior grand strategy. Reviewer William Ruger, writing in The American Conservative, called the book the "defining treatise" for supporters of restraint. Prof. Posen basically agrees with Prof. John Mearsheimer and with radio host Scott Horton, that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was a preventive war aimed to forestall Ukraine's admission into NATO, which could have been followed by placing nuclear-tipped cruise missiles too close to the Russian heartland to be defended from. Posen, like other analysts, draws parallels between the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine of 2022. ==Selected publications==

• Posen, Barry R. (2025-09-03). "European Military Autonomy: What Comes First?". Survival. 67 (5): 7–28. . . • Posen, Barry R. (2025-02-01). "Putin's Preventive War: The 2022 Invasion of Ukraine". International Security. 49 (3): 7–49. . . • Posen B. Hypotheses on the implications of the Ukraine-Russia war. Defense Priorities; 2022. • Posen, Barry R. (2021-09-03). "A new transatlantic division of labor could save billions every year!". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 77 (5): 239–243. }. . • Posen, Barry R. (2020-11-01). "Europe Can Defend Itself". Survival. 62 (6): 7–34. . . • Posen, Barry R. (2019-03-11), Feldman, Shai; Levite, Ariel (eds.), "Military Lessons of the Gulf War-Implications for Middle East Arms Control", Arms Control and the New Middle East Security Environment (1 ed.), Routledge, pp. 61–77, , , retrieved 2025-11-22 • Posen, Barry R. (2019-03-04), Dunn, Keith A.; Staudenmaier, William O. (eds.), "Competing Views of the Central Region Conventional Balance", Alternative Military Strategies for the Future (1 ed.), Routledge, pp. 87–132, , , retrieved 2025-11-22 • "1. The Perils of Liberal Hegemony", Restraint, Cornell University Press, pp. 24–68, 2018-12-31, , , retrieved 2025-11-22 • Posen, Barry R. (2017-12-31). Inadvertent Escalation: Conventional War and Nuclear Risks. Cornell University Press. . . • Posen, Barry R. (2009-11-01). "Emerging Multipolarity: Why Should We Care?". Current History. 108 (721): 347–352. . | 0011-3530. • "Opinion | Fighting Blind in Iraq (Published 2005)". 2005-06-07. Retrieved 2025-11-22. • Posen, Barry R. (2004-01). "ESDP and the structure of world power". The International Spectator. 39 (1): 5–17. . . • Posen, Barry R. (2002-01). "The Struggle against Terrorism: Grand Strategy, Strategy, and Tactics". International Security. 26 (3): 39–55. . . • Zelikow, Philip; Posen, Barry (2000). "The War for Kosovo: Serbia's Political-Military Strategy". Foreign Affairs. 79 (4): 155. . • Posen, Barry R.; Ross, Andrew L. (1997-01). "Competing Visions for U.S. Grand Strategy". International Security. 21 (3): 5–53. . . • Posen, Barry R. (1988-12-31), Miller, Steven E.; Van Evera, Stephen (eds.), "Inadvertent Nuclear War?: Escalation and NATO's Northern Flank", Naval Strategy and National Security, Princeton University Press, pp. 332–358, , , retrieved 2025-11-22 • Posen, Barry R. (1987-07). "Competing Images of the Soviet Union". World Politics. 39 (4): 579–597. . . • Posen, Barry R.; van Evera, Stephen W. (23/1980). "Overarming and Underwhelming". Foreign Policy (40): 99. . • A New Transatlantic Division of Labor could save Billions every year! by Barry Posen • The Transatlantic Relationship: Radical reform is in the U.S. National Interest by Barry Posen • Europe can defend itself by Barry Posen • Civil Wars & the Structure of World Power by Barry Posen • "We can Live With a Nuclear Iran" by Barry Posen in The New York Times • Putin's Preventive War: The 2022 Invasion of Ukraine by Barry Posen ==Notes==