Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 185 pages)
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Illustrations
ISBN:
9781400838806
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1400838800
Series Statement:
Princeton studies in international history and politics
Content:
Why do some national leaders pursue ambitious grand strategies and adventuresome foreign policies while others do not? When do leaders boldly confront foreign threats and when are they less assertive? Politics and Strategy shows that grand strategies are Janus-faced: their formulation has as much to do with a leader's ability to govern at home as it does with maintaining the nation's security abroad. Drawing on the American political experience, Peter Trubowitz reveals how variations in domestic party politics and international power have led presidents from George Washington to Barack Obama.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-175) and index
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1. Statesmen, partisans, and geopolitics. The two faces of grand strategy -- Statesmen as strategic politicians -- Grand strategy past and present -- 2. Grand strategy's microfoundations. Variations in grand strategy -- A model of executive choice -- Determinants of grand strategy -- Research design and outline -- 3. Why states appease their foes. The appeasement puzzle -- George Washington and the appeasement of Britain -- Abraham Lincoln, Britain, and the Confederacy -- Franklin Roosevelt, Hitler, and appeasement, 1936-1939 -- Appeasement reconsidered -- 4. When states expand. Theories of expansionism -- James Monroe, Republican factionalism, and the Monroe Doctrine -- William McKinley, Cuba, and the threat of domestic populism -- George W. Bush, September 11, and the promise of party realignment -- Expansionism : necessity or choice? -- 5. Why states underreach. Strategies of restraint -- Jacksonian fissures and Martin Van Buren's strategic adjustment -- Herbert Hoover, Republican sectarianism, and strategic retrenchment -- Bill Clinton, the Democrats, and selective engagement -- The paradox of strategic "underextension" -- 6. Statecraft's twin engines. American balancing in historical perspective -- Geopolitics and partisan politics : managing cross-pressure -- Secondary powers and nondemocracies -- Barack Obama and grand strategy.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691149578
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691149585
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Trubowitz, Peter Politics and strategy Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2011 ISBN 9780691149578
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
USA
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Politische Führung
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Strategische Planung
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Politische Planung
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Geopolitik
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Sicherheitspolitik
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