American pendulum : recurring debates in U.S. grand strategy /
Hemmer, Christopher.
American pendulum : recurring debates in U.S. grand strategy / Christopher Hemmer. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2015. - x, 224 p. ; 25 cm. - Cornell studies in security affairs .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : recurring debates in U.S. 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.
9780801454240
2015015949
United States--Foreign relations--20th century.
United States--Foreign relations--21st century
Estados Unidos--Relaciones exteriores--Siglo XX.
Estados Unidos--Relaciones exteriores--Siglo XXI.
002 E 183.7 / H489a 2015
327.73009/04
American pendulum : recurring debates in U.S. grand strategy / Christopher Hemmer. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2015. - x, 224 p. ; 25 cm. - Cornell studies in security affairs .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : recurring debates in U.S. 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.
9780801454240
2015015949
United States--Foreign relations--20th century.
United States--Foreign relations--21st century
Estados Unidos--Relaciones exteriores--Siglo XX.
Estados Unidos--Relaciones exteriores--Siglo XXI.
002 E 183.7 / H489a 2015
327.73009/04