TY - BOOK AU - Hemmer,Christopher TI - American pendulum: recurring debates in U.S. grand strategy T2 - Cornell studies in security affairs SN - 9780801454240 AV - 002 E 183.7 H489a 2015 U1 - 327.73009/04 PY - 2015/// CY - Ithaca PB - Cornell University Press KW - United States KW - Foreign relations KW - 20th century KW - 21st century KW - Estados Unidos KW - Relaciones exteriores KW - Siglo XX KW - Siglo XXI N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : recurring debates in U.S. grand strategy -- Finding a place on the world stage : from Roosevelt to Roosevelt -- The debates raised by containment in the Truman administration -- Debating the implementation of containment : Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson -- Beyond containment? : Nixon, Ford, and Carter -- The culmination of containment : Reagan's grand strategy and the end of the Cold War -- Grand strategy in the absence of a clear threat : the foreign policy debates of the 1990s -- The rise and fall of the war on terror in U.S. grand strategy -- "Don't do stupid stuff" : grand strategy debates under Obama -- Conclusion : balancing the pendulum? : the past and the future of U.S. grand strategy ER -