Robert Art (USA Brandeis University)

America's Grand Strategy and World Politics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together the essays of Robert Art, one of America's leading scholars of international relations and US foreign policy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: RT2344X
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 154mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780415952347
• ISBN-10: 0415952344
• Artikelnr.: 21545814

Autorenporträt

Robert J. Art is the Christian A. Herter Professor of International Relations at Brandeis University. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and director of MIT's Seminar XXI program.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Force and Foreign Policy 1. American Foreign Policy and the Fungibility of Force 2. The United States and Coercive Diplomacy (Co-authored with Patrick M. Cronin) Part 2: World War II and the Cold War 3. The United States, the Balance of Power, and World War II: Was Spykman Right? 4. To What Ends Military Power? 5. The United States: Nuclear Weapons and Grand Strategy Part 3: Selective Engagement 6. A Defensible Defense: America's Grand Strategy after the Cold War 7. Geopolitics Updated: The Strategy of Selective Engagement Part 4: Europe, China, and the Future 8. Why Western Europe Needs the United States and NATO 9. Europe Hedges Its Security Bets 10. The United States and the Rise of China: Implications for the Long Haul 11. Looking Ahead - Near Term and Far

Rezensionen

"Praise for Robert Art's previous work. "A brilliant distillation and synthesis of some of the best contemporary scholarship on American grand strategy...[Art]offers a clear exposition of U.S. national interests and how to defend them." -- Walter Russell Mead,Foreign Affairs
"Robert Art writes about American grand strategy in the tradition of Walter Lippmann and George Kennan." -- John Mearshimer