Politics and Strategy : Partisan Ambition and American Statecraft /

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Why do some national leaders pursue ambitious grand strategies and adventuresome foreign policies while others do not? When do leaders boldly confront foreign threats and when are they less assertive? Politics and Strategy shows that grand strategies are Janus-faced: their formulation has as much to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Trubowitz, Peter
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
International Relations.
Law, Politics & Government.
Strategic planning.
Security, International.
Politics, Practical.
Political leadership.
Geopolitics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Leadership.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > International.
Geopolitique > États-Unis.
Planification strategique > États-Unis.
Political leadership > United States.
Politics, Practical > United States.
Geopolitics > United States.
Strategic planning > United States.
United States.
États-Unis > Relations exterieures > Prise de decision.
United States > Foreign relations > Decision making.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Statesmen, partisans, and geopolitics. The two faces of grand strategy
  • Statesmen as strategic politicians
  • Grand strategy past and present
  • 2. Grand strategy's microfoundations. Variations in grand strategy
  • A model of executive choice
  • Determinants of grand strategy
  • Research design and outline
  • 3. Why states appease their foes. The appeasement puzzle
  • George Washington and the appeasement of Britain
  • Abraham Lincoln, Britain, and the Confederacy
  • Franklin Roosevelt, Hitler, and appeasement, 1936-1939
  • Appeasement reconsidered
  • 4. When states expand. Theories of expansionism
  • James Monroe, Republican factionalism, and the Monroe Doctrine
  • William McKinley, Cuba, and the threat of domestic populism
  • George W. Bush, September 11, and the promise of party realignment
  • Expansionism : necessity or choice?
  • 5. Why states underreach. Strategies of restraint
  • Jacksonian fissures and Martin Van Buren's strategic adjustment
  • Herbert Hoover, Republican sectarianism, and strategic retrenchment
  • Bill Clinton, the Democrats, and selective engagement
  • The paradox of strategic "underextension"
  • 6. Statecraft's twin engines. American balancing in historical perspective
  • Geopolitics and partisan politics : managing cross-pressure
  • Secondary powers and nondemocracies
  • Barack Obama and grand strategy.

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