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Author Hemmer, Christopher M. (Christopher Michael), 1969- author.

Title American pendulum : recurring debates in U.S. grand strategy / Christopher Hemmer.

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 224 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Cornell studies in security affairs
Cornell studies in security affairs.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : recurring debates in American grand strategy -- Finding a place on the world stage : from Roosevelt to Roosevelt -- The debates raised by containment in the Truman administration -- Debating the implementation of containment : Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson -- Beyond containment? : Nixon, Ford, and Carter -- The culmination of containment : Reagan's grand strategy and the end of the Cold War -- Grand strategy in the absence of a clear threat : the foreign policy debates of the 1990s -- The rise and fall of the war on terror in U.S. grand strategy -- Don't do stupid stuff : grand strategy debates under Obama -- Conclusion : balancing the pendulum? : the past and the future of U.S. grand strategy.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century.
United States.
International relations.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject United States -- Foreign relations -- 21st century.
Chronological Term 21st century
1900-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Hemmer, Christopher. American pendulum. Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2015 9780801454240 (DLC) 2015015949 (OCoLC)907948429
ISBN 9781501701191 (electronic book)
1501701193 (electronic book)
9780801454240
0801454247