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Title:

The power of the past : history and statecraft / Hal Brands and Jeremi Suri, editors.

Publisher:

Brookings Institution Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

vi, 327 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

United States--Foreign relations--Case studies.
United States--History.
Case studies.
History.

Other Authors:

Brands, Hal, 1983-
Suri, Jeremi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

1. Introduction : thinking about history and foreign policy / Hal Brands and Jeremi Suri -- 2. Henry Kissinger, the study of history and the modern statesman / Jeremi Suri -- 3. Policymaking and the uses of the Vietnam War / Mark Atwood Lawrence -- 4. Neither Munich nor Vietnam : the Gulf War of 1991 / H. W. Brands -- 5. Narrating democracy : historical narratives, the Potsdam Declaration, and Japanese rearmament, 1945-1950 / Jennifer M. Miller -- 6. Containment : myth and metaphor / Thomas G. Mahnken -- 7. Grand strategy and petty squabbles : the paradox and lessons of the Reagan NSC / William Inboden -- 8. The ambiguities of humanitarian intervention / Michael Cotey Morgan -- 9. The shadow of white slavery : race, innocence, and history in contemporary anti-human trafficking campaigns / Gunther Peck -- 10. History, policymaking and the Balkans : lessons imported and lessons learned / James B. Steinberg -- 11. Looking forward through the past : the role of history in Bush White House national security policymaking / Peter Feaver and William Inboden -- 12. The nature of history's lessons / Philip Zelikow.

ISBN:

0815727127
9780815727125

OCLC:

(OCoLC)908375029

LCCN:

2015025598

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)