USNORTHCOM, USSOUTHCOM, USCENTCOM, USEUCOM, and USPACCOM - the United States has carved the world into these five pieces with troops and military leadership in each. According to General Richard Myers, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, the 2002 Unified Command Plan prepares the United States for the future by assigning every area of the globe to a combatant commander’s area of responsibility, thereby streamlining and facilitating the United States’ military relationships with respect to all nations. Outside defense circles the potential impact of post-1990 American strategic reach - or perhaps overreach - has not been given sufficient attention. But in this new book with CD-ROM, Strategy for Empire: U.S. Regional Security Policy in the Post-Cold War Era, Brian Loveman focuses on this issue and raises several important questions: Even under the perilous conditions imposed by global terrorism, diffusion of weapons of mass destruction, and international anarchy, can the United States afford, and should it seek to justify, assigning responsibility to combatant commanders for every area of the globe and maintaining a military presence in well over 100 countries? Can a foreign policy of preemptive deterrence and covert operations around the globe against terrorists, international criminal organizations, and so-called rogue states be compatible with American constitutional democracy? Or has the United States itself become a rogue super power, at risk of losing its democratic soul at home and its moral credibility abroad in its efforts to manage a global empire through regional military proconsuls (CINCs) organized under the supervision of a United Military Command? This text provides answers to these questions from the perspective of American presidents, policy makers, military officers, and establishment think-tanks. This book and the accompanying CD-ROM make available in one place a synthesis of official and semi-official views of post-1990 security agendas and of the evolving perception of post-Cold War threat scenarios. The book begins with security policy declarations by American presidents since 1990. It then presents the views of military strategists, government policy makers, and mainline think tanks, followed by alternative, critical views from leading experts on U.S. security policy in most major regions of the world. The CD contains the full text of seventeen lengthy major policy documents and studies from 1990 to 2003 mentioned by the authors. It also includes an extensive bibliography of secondary works that focus on regional security policy during the post-Cold War period. The CD offers teachers a unique resource that, coupled with the book, provides a wealth of stimulating material for the classroom. The alternative views on U.S. security policies make Strategy for Empire ideal for courses on international relations, international security, American foreign policy, peace studies, and conflict and conflict resolution. With the documents on the CD students have easy access to primary sources for papers and for reference. Compelling and up to date (the book includes two articles on post-Saddam Hussein Iraq and three on Latin America’s efforts to deal with post-September 11 security issues), this provocative new book is sure to promote critical thinking and spark lively classroom discussion and debate.