02349cam a22003498a 45000010008000000030008000080050017000160080041000330100017000740200029000910200026001200200025001460200022001710240016001930350021002090350024002300350017002540400046002710820016003172450135003332600053004683000025005213650015005465040051005615200216006125201022008286500029018506500034018797000029019137000034019427000023019768556630BD-DhUL20160724154055.0100831s2011    enk      b    001 0 eng    a  2010037125  a9780521761260 (hardback)  a0521761263 (hardback)  a9780521156332 (pbk.)  a0521156335 (pbk.)  a40019045071  a(OCoLC)663102387  a(OCoLC)ocn663102387  a(NNC)8556630  aDLCcDLCdUKMdYDXCPdERASAdLPLdBD-DhUL  a940.53bSHA04aThe shaping of grand strategy : bpolicy, diplomacy, and war / cedited by Williamson Murray, Richard Hart Sinnreich, James Lacey.  aCambridge : bCambridge University Press,c2011.  aix, 283 p. ;c23 cm.  aUS$b81.00  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  a"This volume explores the successes as well as failures of great states attempting to create grand strategies that work and discusses of some of the extraordinary difficulties involved"--cProvided by publisher.  a"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"--cProvided by publisher. 0aWorld politicsyTo 1900. 0aWorld politicsy19th century.1 aMurray, Williamson.eed.1 aSinnreich, Richard Hart.eed.1 aLacey, James.eed.