Americas Strategy In World Politics

Author : Nicholas J. Spykman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351532081
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Strategy in World Politics written by Nicholas J. Spykman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Less than a year after the United States entered the Second World War, Nicholas Spykman wrote a book that placed the war effort in the broader context of the 1940s global balance of power. In America's Strategy in World Politics, Spykman examined world politics from a realist geopolitical perspective. The United States, he explained, was fighting for its very survival as an independent country because the conquests of Germany and Japan raised the specter of our geopolitical encirclement by hostile forces controlling the power centers of Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia. Spykman warned that the United States could not safely retreat to a defensive position in the Western Hemisphere. Spykman looked beyond the immediate strategic requirements of the Second World War, envisioning a postwar world in which the United States would help shape the global balance of power to meet its security needs. Even though Soviet Russia was our wartime ally, Spykman recognized that a geopolitically unbalanced Soviet Union could threaten to upset the postwar balance of power and thereby endanger U.S. security. Spykman also foresaw the rise of China in postwar Asia, and the likely need for the United States to ally itself with Japan to balance China's power. He also recognized that the Middle East would play a pivotal role in the postwar world. Spykman influenced American postwar statesmen and strategists. During the Cold War, the U.S. sought to deny the Soviet Union political control of Western Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia. Spykman's geopolitical vision of U.S. security, supported by a balanced Eurasian land mass, coupled with his focus on power as the governing force in international relations, makes America's Strategy in World Politics relevant to the twenty-first century.

Author : Nicholas John Spykman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Strategy in World Politics written by Nicholas John Spykman and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert J. Art
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415952330
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Grand Strategy and World Politics written by Robert J. Art and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together the essays of Robert Art, one of America's leading scholars of international relations and US foreign policy. The essays represent some of his most important and influential international relations and foreign policy pieces written since the end of the Cold War. Focused on the theme of American grand strategy, the essays cover such topics as: the use of force coercive diplomacy nuclear deterrence defence policy the role of NATO US-European relations. The essays in this collection possess both theoretical depth and historical breadth, providing a coherent assessment of the role that American military power plays in international politics. It includes a new introduction that provides an overview of American grand strategy and an original afterword in which the author reflects on the future of grand strategy in the post-9/11 world.

Author : Nicholas John Spykman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Strategy in World Politics written by Nicholas John Spykman and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Trubowitz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400838800
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics and Strategy written by Peter Trubowitz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-14 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do some national leaders pursue ambitious grand strategies and adventuresome foreign policies while others do not? When do leaders boldly confront foreign threats and when are they less assertive? Politics and Strategy shows that grand strategies are Janus-faced: their formulation has as much to do with a leader's ability to govern at home as it does with maintaining the nation's security abroad. Drawing on the American political experience, Peter Trubowitz reveals how variations in domestic party politics and international power have led presidents from George Washington to Barack Obama to pursue strategies that differ widely in international ambition and cost. He considers why some presidents overreach in foreign affairs while others fail to do enough. Trubowitz pushes the understanding of grand strategy beyond traditional approaches that stress only international forces or domestic interests. He provides insights into how past leaders responded to cross-pressures between geopolitics and party politics, and how similar issues continue to bedevil American statecraft today. He suggests that the trade-offs shaping American leaders' foreign policy choices are not unique--analogous trade-offs confront Chinese and Russian leaders as well. Combining innovative theory and historical analysis, Politics and Strategy answers classic questions of statecraft and offers new ideas for thinking about grand strategies and the leaders who make them.

Author : Sean M. Lynn-Jones
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262620857
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Strategy in a Changing World written by Sean M. Lynn-Jones and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Del 1): America's Strategic options in a Changing Security Environment. Del 2): Dimensins of U.S. Strategy after the Cold War

Author : Yale University (NEW HAVEN, Connecticut). Institute of International Studies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Strategy in World Politics. The United States and the Balance of Power. [By] Nicholas John Spykman, Etc written by Yale University (NEW HAVEN, Connecticut). Institute of International Studies and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth Borgwardt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190695668
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking American Grand Strategy written by Elizabeth Borgwardt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is grand strategy ? What does it aim to achieve? And what differentiates it from normal strategic thought--what, in other words, makes it "grand"? In answering these questions, most scholars have focused on diplomacy and warfare, so much so that "grand"? In answering these questions, most scholars have focused on diplomacy and warfare, so much so that "grand strategy" has become almost an equivalent of "military history." The traditional attention paid to military affairs is understandable, but in today's world it leaves out much else that could be considered political, and therefore strategic. Just as contemporary world politics is driven by a wide range of non-military issues, the most thorough considerations of grand strategy must consider the bases of peace and security--including gender, race, the environment, and a wide range of cultural, social, political, and economic issues. Rethinking American Grand Strategy assembles a roster of leading historians to examine America's place in the world. Its innovative chapters re-examine familiar figures, such as John Quincy Adams, George Kennan, and Henry Kissinger, while also revealing the forgotten episodes and hidden voices of American grand strategy. They expand the scope of diplomatic and military history by placing the grand strategies of public health, race, gender, humanitarianism, and the law alongside military and diplomatic affairs to reveal hidden strategists as well as strategies. --

Author : Abraham M. Denmark
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231552270
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book U.S. Strategy in the Asian Century written by Abraham M. Denmark and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Indo-Pacific emerges as the world’s most strategically consequential region and competition with China intensifies, the United States must adapt its approach if it seeks to preserve its power and sustain regional stability and prosperity. Yet as China grows more powerful and aggressive and the United States appears increasingly unreliable, the Indo-Pacific has become riven with uncertainty. These dynamics threaten to undermine the region’s unprecedented peace and prosperity. U.S. Strategy in the Asian Century offers vital perspective on the future of power dynamics in the Indo-Pacific, focusing on the critical roles that American allies and partners can play. Abraham M. Denmark argues that these alliances and partnerships represent indispensable strategic assets for the United States. They will be necessary in any effort by Washington to compete with China, promote prosperity, and preserve a liberal order in the Indo-Pacific. Blending academic rigor and practical policy experience, Denmark analyzes the future of major-power competition in the region, with an eye toward American security interests. He details a pragmatic approach for the United States to harness the power of its allies and partners to ensure long-term regional stability and successfully navigate the complexities of the new era.

Author : Benjamin Miller
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022673515X
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grand Strategy from Truman to Trump written by Benjamin Miller and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American foreign policy is the subject of extensive debate. Many look to domestic factors as the driving forces of bad policies. Benjamin Miller instead seeks to account for changes in US international strategy by developing a theory of grand strategy that captures the key security approaches available to US decision-makers in times of war and peace. Grand Strategy from Truman to Trump makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of competing grand strategies that accounts for objectives and means of security policy. Miller puts forward a model that is widely applicable, based on empirical evidence from post-WWII to today, and shows that external factors—rather than internal concerns—are the most determinative.