Book Review: Shields of the Republic

245 Book Review: Shields of the Republic Reviewed by Cody R. Schuette Republic: The Triumph and Peril America’s Alliances Mira Rapp-Hooper. Harvard University Press, 2020. ISBN: 978- 0-67-498295-6. 252 pp., $23.94 (US). doi: 10.18278/gsis.6.2.12 Global Security Intelligence Studies • Volume 6, Number 2 Winter 2021 China’s Russia’s audacious increasingly destructive transnational behavior is reducing relative global power. To combat this, Rapp-Hooper in argues that although post-World War II alliance system ensured long-peace, enhanced cooperation with neoteric responses among allies are urgently required. stated purpose book to counter recent rise populist anti-alliance rhetoric demonstrate how why alliances must adapt contemporary great power competition.