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010 $a 2012018813
020 $a9781107022522
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050 00 $aJZ1313$b.C47 2012
082 00 $a327.1/1209041$223
084 $aPOL011000$2bisacsh
245 04 $aThe challenge of grand strategy :$bthe great powers and the broken balance between the world wars /$cedited by Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, Norrin M. Ripsman, Steven E. Lobell.
264 1 $aCambridge :$bCambridge University Press,$c2012.
300 $axii, 347 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"The years between the world wars represent an era of broken balances: the retreat of the United States from global geopolitics, the weakening of Great Britain and France, Russian isolation following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, the resurgence of German power in Europe, and the rise of Japan in East Asia. All these factors complicated great-power politics. This book brings together historians and political scientists to revisit the conventional wisdom on the grand strategies pursued between the world wars, drawing on theoretical innovations and new primary sources. The contributors suggest that all the great powers pursued policies that, while in retrospect suboptimal, represented conscious, rational attempts to secure their national interests under conditions of extreme uncertainty and intense domestic and international political, economic, and strategic constraints"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: grand strategy between the World Wars / Steven E. Lobell, Jeffrey W. Taliaferro and Norrin M. Ripsman; 2. Deterrence, coercion, and enmeshment: French grand strategy and the German problem after World War I / Peter T. Jackson; 3. The legacy of coercive peace-building: the Locarno treaty, Anglo-French grand strategy, and the 1936 Rhineland crisis / Scott A. Silverstone; 4. The League of Nations and grand strategy: a contradiction in terms? / Andrew Webster; 5. Economic interdependence and the grand strategies of Germany and Japan, 1925-1941 / Dale C. Copeland; 6. Britain's grand strategy during the 1930s: from balance of power to components of power / Steven E. Lobell; 7. British grand strategy and the rise of Germany, 1933-1936 / Norrin M. Ripsman and Jack S. Levy; 8. Strategy of innocence or provocation? The Roosevelt administration's road to World War II / Jeffrey W. Taliaferro; 9. The rising sun was no jackal: Japanese grand strategy, the Tripartite pact, and alliance formation theory / Tsuyoshi Kawasaki; 10. Powers of division: from the anti-Comintern to the Nazi-Soviet and Japanese-Soviet Pacts, 1936-1941 / Timothy W. Crawford; 11. Soviet grand strategy in the interwar years: ideology as realpolitik / Mark L. Haas; 12. Conclusions: rethinking interwar grand strategies / David M. Edelstein.
650 0 $aBalance of power$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aGreat powers$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aStrategic culture$xHistory$y20th century.
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aTaliaferro, Jeffrey W.
700 1 $aRipsman, Norrin M.
700 1 $aLobell, Steven E.,$d1964-
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/22522/cover/9781107022522.jpg
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1210/2012018813-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1210/2012018813-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1210/2012018813-t.html