What good is grand strategy? : power and purpose in American statecraft from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush / Hal Brands.
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TextLanguage: English Publisher: Ithaca (New York) : Cornell University Press, 2015Description: xiii, 273 pages ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780801456732 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0801456738 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 327.73009/04
- 002 E 744 B819w 2015
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-259) and index.
Introduction : the meaning and challenge of grand strategy -- The golden age revisited : the Truman administration and the evolution of containment -- Travails of the heroic statesmen : grand strategy in the Nixon-Kissinger years -- American statecraft in the late Cold War : was there a Reagan grand strategy? -- The dangers of being grand : George W. Bush and the post-9/11 era -- Conclusion : grappling with grand strategy.
Hal Brands explains why grand strategy is a concept that is so alluring and so elusive to those who make American statecraft, exploring what grand strategy is, why it is so essential, and why it is so hard to get right.
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