The Fourth Power

Former U.S. senator Gary Hart (D-Colorado) is author of thirteen books and a leading expert on national security and American foreign policy. A longtime member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, an international lawyer who has traveled to the former Soviet Union over 100 times, Hart recently completed a three-year assignment as co-chair of the U.S. Commission on National Security for the 21st Century, a body that before 9/11 both warned of a massive stateside attack and recommended the creation of a homeland security department. Hart has taught at Yale, University of California, and Oxford University, where he earned a D.Phil. in Politics in 2001.

• Introduction ; 1. Strategy in an Age of Revolution ; 2. Our Principles as an Element of Strategy ; 3. America's Large Purposes in the New Century ; 4. Security in the Twenty-first Century: A Larger Understanding ; 5. Principled Engagement: Expanding Security through Opportunity ; 6. The New Security and the Use of Military Power ; 7. Who We Are: Temptations of Empire ; 8. Restoring the Republic...and Its Principles ; Conclusion ; Appendix ; Notes ; Index

"Hart questions notions of preemption and preventive war.... [He] offers a conceptual framework in which a "fourth power" -- "the power of principle" -- must be added to traditional American economic, political and military power as a major strategic asset internationally.... In their current formulation, [his ideas] could prove important as soon as next year. An active Kerry for President campaigner, Hart could be a senior appointee in a Kerry administration.