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American pendulum : recurring debates in U.S. grand strategy
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- Creator
- Christopher Hemmer
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2015
- �2015
- Physical Details
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- x, 224 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 1501701185, 9780801454240, 0801454247, 9781501701191, 9781501701184, 1501701193
- OCLC
- ocn919921511, on1080551083, ocn907948429
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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