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The power of the past : history and statecraft /
"Leading scholars and policymakers explore how history influences foreign policy and offer insights on how the study of the past can more usefully serve the present. History, with its insights, analogies, and narratives, is central to the ways that the United States interacts with the world. Hi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
Brookings Institution Press,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; 1
- Introduction: Thinking about History and Foreign Policy; Part I
- How History does Influence Policy; 2
- Henry Kissinger, the Study of History, and the Modern Statesman; 3
- Policymaking and the Uses of the Vietnam War; 4
- Neither Munich nor Vietnam: The Gulf War of 1991; 5
- Narrating Democracy: Historical Narratives, the Potsdam Declaration, and Japanese Rearmament, 194550; Part II
- How History can and should Influence Policy; 6
- Containment: Myth and Metaphor; 7
- Grand Strategy and Petty Squabbles: The Paradox and Lessons of the Reagan NSC. 8
- The Ambiguities of Humanitarian Intervention9
- The Shadow of White Slavery: Race, Innocence, and History in Contemporary AntiHuman Trafficking Campaigns; Part III
- Policymakers Insights; 10
- History, Policymaking, and the Balkans: Lessons Imported and Lessons Learned; 11
- Looking Forward through the Past: The Role of History in Bush White House National Security Policymaking; 12
- The Nature of History's Lessons; About the Authors; Index; Back Cover.