The Shaping of Grand Strategy

The Shaping of Grand Strategy Policy, Diplomacy, and War

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Publisher's Synopsis

Within 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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780521156332
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 355.02
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 265
Weight: 448g
Height: 228mm
Width: 155mm
Spine width: 16mm