02286nam a22003378a 4500 CR9780511974182 UkCbUP 20180107143413.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 101011s2011||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9780511974182 (ebook) 9780521761260 (hardback) 9780521156332 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda D217 .S44 2011 327.1 22 The Shaping of Grand Strategy : Policy, Diplomacy, and War / [electronic resource] Edited by Williamson Murray, Richard Hart Sinnreich, James Lacey. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011. 1 online resource (294 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). Within a variety of historical contexts, The Shaping of Grand Strategy addresses the most important tasks states have confronted: namely, how to protect their citizens against the short-range as well as long-range dangers their polities confront in the present and may confront in the future. To be successful, grand strategy demands that governments and leaders chart a course that involves more than simply reacting to immediate events. Above all, it demands they adapt to sudden and major changes in the international environment, which more often than not involves the outbreak of great conflicts but at times demands recognition of major economic, political, or diplomatic changes. This collection of essays explores the successes as well as failures of great states attempting to create grand strategies that work and aims at achieving an understanding of some of the extraordinary difficulties involved in casting, evolving and adapting grand strategy to the realities of the world. Murray, Williamson, editor of compilation. Sinnreich, Richard Hart, editor of compilation. Lacey, James, editor of compilation. Print version: 9780521761260 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511974182 Cambridge Books Online 236592 236592