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The challenge of grand strategy : the great powers and the broken balance between the world wars /
"The years between the world wars represent an era of broken balances: the retreat of the United States from global geopolitics, the weakening of Great Britain and France, Russian isolation following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, the resurgence of German power in Europe, and the rise of Japan...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "The years between the world wars represent an era of broken balances: the retreat of the United States from global geopolitics, the weakening of Great Britain and France, Russian isolation following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, the resurgence of German power in Europe, and the rise of Japan in East Asia. All these factors complicated great-power politics. This book brings together historians and political scientists to revisit the conventional wisdom on the grand strategies pursued between the world wars, drawing on theoretical innovations and new primary sources. The contributors suggest that all the great powers pursued policies that, while in retrospect suboptimal, represented conscious, rational attempts to secure their national interests under conditions of extreme uncertainty and intense domestic and international political, economic, and strategic constraints"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 347 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139526210 1139526219 9781283574785 1283574780 9781139136808 1139136801 9781139528603 1139528602 1139540203 9781139540209 1107231779 9781107231771 9786613887238 6613887234 1139532073 9781139532075 1139530887 9781139530880 |