American Pendulum : Recurring Debates in U.S. Grand Strategy /
As new presidential administrations come into power, they each bring their own approach to foreign policy. No grand strategy, however, is going to be completely novel. New administrations never start with a blank slate, so it is always possible to see similarities between an administration and its p...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2015.
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Table des matières:
- Introduction : recurring debates in American 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.