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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Hemmer, Christopher M. (Christopher Michael), 1969- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2015.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.