TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brands,Hal
TI  - What good is grand strategy?: power and purpose in American statecraft from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush 
SN  - 9780801456732 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - 002 E 744 B819w 2015
U1  - 327.73009/04 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Ithaca (New York)
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - United States
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Relaciones exteriores
KW  - Siglo XX
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Siglo XXI
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=42049
ER  -