American pendulum
Subtitle: recurring debates in U.S. grand strategy
By: Christopher Hemmer
Series: Cornell studies in security affairs; Cornell studies in security affairs
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780801454240
Subjects: Diplomatic relations; Foreign relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-218) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : recurring debates in American grand strategy; title: Finding a place on the world stage : from Roosevelt to Roosevelt; title: The debates raised by containment in the Truman administration; title: Debating the implementation of containment : Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson; title: Beyond containment? : Nixon, Ford, and Carter; title: The culmination of containment : Reagan's grand strategy and the end of the Cold War; title: Grand strategy in the absence of a clear threat : the foreign policy debates of the 1990s; title: The rise and fall of the war on terror in U.S. grand strategy; title: Don't do stupid stuff : grand strategy debates under Obama; title: Conclusion : balancing the pendulum? : the past and the future of U.S. grand strategy.