Grand Strategy in Theory and Practice: The Need for an Effective American Foreign Policy
Cambridge University Press, 1/12/2015
EAN 9781107082069, ISBN10: 1107082064
Hardcover, 548 pages, 25.7 x 17.5 x 3.3 cm
Language: English
This book explores fundamental questions about grand strategy, as it has evolved across generations and countries. It provides an overview of the ancient era of grand strategy and a detailed discussion of its philosophical, military, and economic foundations in the modern era. The author investigates these aspects through the lenses of four approaches - those of historians, social scientists, practitioners, and military strategists. The main goal is to provide contemporary policy makers and scholars with a historic and analytic framework in which to evaluate and conduct grand strategy. By providing greater analytical clarity about grand strategy and describing its nature and its utility for the state, this book presents a comprehensive theory on the practice of grand strategy in order to articulate the United States' past, present, and future purpose and position on the world stage.
1. Introduction
2. Contemporary classics in American grand strategy
Part I. Makers of Grand Strategy
3. Foundations of grand strategy
4. Ancient and modern eras of grand strategy
5. Grand strategies of empire in the modern era
6. Revolutionary and nuclear eras of grand strategy
Part II. Makers of American Grand Strategy
7. Building domestic foundations of American power
Washington to Lincoln
8. Restraining sources of disorder
Theodore Roosevelt to Franklin Delano Roosevelt
9. Reinforcing alliances and partnerships
Truman to Reagan
10. Drifting between principles
Bush to Obama
Part III. Conclusion
11. The making of a future American grand strategy.