American Pendulum : : Recurring Debates in U.S. Grand Strategy / / Christopher Hemmer.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Finding a Place on the World Stage
- 2. The Debates Raised by Containment in the Truman Administration
- 3. Debating the Implementation of Containment
- 4. Beyond Containment?
- 5. The Culmination of Containment
- 6. Grand Strategy in the Absence of a Clear Threat
- 7. The Rise and Fall of the War on Terror in U.S. Grand Strategy
- 8. “Don’t Do Stupid Stuff”
- Conclusion: Balancing the Pendulum?
- Notes
- Index