02402cam a22003738a 4500 8556630 BD-DhUL 20160724154055.0 100831s2011 enk b 001 0 eng 2010037125 9780521761260 (hardback) 0521761263 (hardback) 9780521156332 (pbk.) 0521156335 (pbk.) 40019045071 (OCoLC)663102387 (OCoLC)ocn663102387 (NNC)8556630 DLC DLC UKM YDXCP ERASA LPL BD-DhUL 940.53 SHA The shaping of grand strategy : policy, diplomacy, and war / edited by Williamson Murray, Richard Hart Sinnreich, James Lacey. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011. ix, 283 p. ; 23 cm. US$ 81.00 Includes bibliographical references and index. "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"-- Provided by publisher. "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"-- Provided by publisher. World politics To 1900. World politics 19th century. Murray, Williamson. ed. Sinnreich, Richard Hart. ed. Lacey, James. ed. ddc BK 86158 86158 0 0 ddc 0 940_530000000000000_SHA 0 NFIC 143593 DUL DUL GEN 2012-12-24 Purchased 940.53 SHA 477588 2016-07-24 2016-07-24 BK