A nation must think before it acts.
Thomas P.M. Barnett, The Pentagon’s New Map (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2004); and Blueprint for Action: A Future Worth Creating (New York: Putnam’s, 2005).
Jeffrey W. Legro, Rethinking the World: Great Power Strategies and International Order (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2005).