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Trubowitz, Peter

 
9780691149585: Politics and Strategy: Partisan Ambition and American Statecraft
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0691149585 ISBN 13 : 9780691149585
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2011

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Peter Trubowitz is professor of government at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of Defining the National Interest.

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Éditeur
Princeton University Press
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0691149585
ISBN 13 
9780691149585
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
200
Coordonnées du fabricant
Princeton University Press
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