The power of the past: history and statecraft
Leading scholars and policymakers explore how history influences foreign policy and offer insights on how the study of the past can more usefully serve the present. History, with its insights, analogies, and narratives, is central to the ways that the United States interacts wit…
Provides a process and framework for using historical knowledge in intelligent decision making, and presents several situations in which world leaders did and did not do this.
Provides a process and framework for using historical knowledge in intelligent decision making, and presents several situations in which world leaders did and did not do this.
Two professors of government analyze both political disasters and successes of recent decades to provide telling lessons on how to use history to improve decision-making. A dozen case studies are drawn in pungent detail both from the record and from backstage information gained …
"This edited volume compares and contrasts the geopolitics and trajectories of South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Germany, and Puerto Rico in response to postWorld War II U.S. foreign policy to show how these countries have developed within the modern capitalist WorldSystem"Provided by…
"This edited volume compares and contrasts the geopolitics and trajectories of South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Germany, and Puerto Rico in response to post-World War II U.S. foreign policy to show how these countries have developed within the modern capitalist World-System"--Provide…