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020 _a9780511974182 (ebook)
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040 _aUkCbUP
_cUkCbUP
_erda
050 0 0 _aD217
_b.S44 2011
082 0 0 _a327.1
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245 0 4 _aThe Shaping of Grand Strategy :
_bPolicy, Diplomacy, and War /
_cEdited by Williamson Murray, Richard Hart Sinnreich, James Lacey.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2011.
300 _a1 online resource (294 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).
520 _aWithin a variety of historical contexts, The Shaping of Grand Strategy addresses the most important tasks states have confronted: namely, how to protect their citizens against the short-range as well as long-range dangers their polities confront in the present and may confront in the future. To be successful, grand strategy demands that governments and leaders chart a course that involves more than simply reacting to immediate events. Above all, it demands they adapt to sudden and major changes in the international environment, which more often than not involves the outbreak of great conflicts but at times demands recognition of major economic, political, or diplomatic changes. This collection of essays explores the successes as well as failures of great states attempting to create grand strategies that work and aims at achieving an understanding of some of the extraordinary difficulties involved in casting, evolving and adapting grand strategy to the realities of the world.
700 1 _aMurray, Williamson,
_eeditor of compilation.
700 1 _aSinnreich, Richard Hart,
_eeditor of compilation.
700 1 _aLacey, James,
_eeditor of compilation.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780521761260
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511974182
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