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[Third edition]. |
| Description |
xxii, 1158 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction: The Indispensable Art: Three Generations of Makers of Modern Strategy / Hal Brands -- Part One: Foundations and Founders -- 1. Strategy: The History of an Idea / Lawrence Freedman -- 2. Thucydides, Polybius, and the Legacies of the Ancient World / Walter Russell Mead -- 3. Sun Zi and the Search for a Timeless Logic of Strategy / Toshi Yoshihara -- 4. Machiavelli and the Naissance of Modern Strategy / Matthew Kroenig -- 5. The Elusive Meaning and Enduring Relevance of Clausewitz / Hew Strachan -- 6. Jomini, Modern War, and Strategy: The Triumph of the Essential / Antulio J. Echevarria II -- 7. Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Strategy of Sea Power / John H. Maurer -- 8. Kant, Paine, and Strategies of Liberal Transformation / Michael Cotey Morgan -- 9. Alexander Hamilton and the Financial Sinews of Strategy / James Lacey -- 10. Economic Foundations of Strategy: Beyond Smith, Hamilton, and List / Eric Helleiner and Jonathan Kirshner -- Part Two: Strategy in an Age of Great-Power Rivalry -- 11. Sully, Richelieu, and Mazarin: French Strategies of Equilibrium in the Seventeenth Century / Iskander Rehman -- 12. Generational Competition in a Multipolar World: William III and André-Hercule de Fleury / Matt J. Schumann -- 13. Napoleon and the Strategy of the Single Point / Michael V. Leggiere -- 14. John Quincy Adams and the Challenges of a Democratic Strategy / Charles Edel -- 15. Strategic Excellence: Tecumseh and the Shawnee Confederacy / Kori Schake -- 16. Francis Lieber, the Laws of War, and the Origins of the Liberal International Order / Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh -- 17. Japan Caught between Maritime and Continental Imperialism / S.C.M. Paine -- 18. Strategies of Anti-Imperial Resistance: Gandhi, Bhagat Singh, and Fanon / Priya Satia -- Part Three: Strategy in an Age of Global War -- 19. Strategy, War Plans, and the First World War / Margaret MacMillan -- 20. The Strategy of Decisive War versus the Strategy of Attrition / Williamson Murray -- 21. Strategy and Total War / Williamson Murray -- 22. Woodrow Wilson and the Rise of Modern American Grand Strategy / Robert Kagan -- 23. Democratic Leaders and Strategies of Coalition Warfare: Churchill and Roosevelt in World War II / Tami Davis Biddle -- 24. The Hidden Hand of History: Toynbee and the Search for World Order / Andrew Ehrhardt and John Bew -- 25. Strategies of Geopolitical Revolution: Hitler and Stalin / Brendan Simms -- 26. Mao Zedong and Strategies of Nested War / S.C.M. Paine -- Part Four: Strategy in a Bipolar Era -- 27. Nuclear Strategy in Theory and Practice: The Great Divergence / Eric S. Edelman -- 28. The Elusive Nature of Nuclear Strategy / Francis J. Gavin -- 29. Limited War in the Nuclear Age: American Strategy in Korea / Daniel Marston -- 30. Ben-Gurion, Nasser, and Strategy in the Arab-Israeli Conflict / Guy Laron -- 31. Nehru and the Strategy of of non-alignment / Tanvi Madan -- 32. Lydnon Johnson and Robert McNamara : theory over history and expertise / Mark Moyar -- 33. Strategies of détente and competition : Brezhnev and Moscow's Cold War / Sergey Radchenko -- 34. Arms competition, arms control, and strategies of peacetime competition from Fisher to Reagan / Thomas G. Mahnken -- Part five : Strategy in the post-Cold War world -- 35. Dilemmas of dominance : American strategy from George H. W. Bush to Barack Obama / Christopher J. Griffin -- 36. The two marshals : Nikolai Ogarkov, Andrew Marshall, and the revolution in military affairs / Dmitry (Dima) Adamsky -- 37. Strategies of counterinsurgency and counter-terrorism after 9/11 / Carter Malkasian -- 38. Strategies of jihad : from the Prophet Muhammad to contemporary times / Ahmed S. Hashin -- 39. Xi Jinping and the strategy of China's restoration / Elizabeth Economy -- 40. Soleimani, Gerasimov, and strategies of irregular warfare / seth G. Jones -- 42. The strength of weakness : the Kim Dynasty and North Korea's strategy for survival / Sue Mi Terry -- Strategies of persistent conflict : Kabila and the Congo wars / Jason K. Stearns -- 43. Strategy and grand strategy in new domains / Joshua Rovner -- 44. A revolution in intelligence -- 45. Grammar, logic, and grand strategy / John Lewis Gaddis. |
| Summary |
"First published by Princeton in 1943, the collection of essays that constituted Makers of Modern Strategy has largely held the field as the key book that studied the means and ends of military power and thought, and the historical figures that shaped that history. The books, in two editions, have long been a staple of Princeton's backlist in international politics and strategic studies. The first edition, edited by Edward Mead Earle and subtitled Military Thought from Machiavelli to Hitler, emerged out of a seminar of foreign policy and security experts organized between Princeton and the Institute of Advanced Study in reaction to World War II as a global conflict. The subsequent edition, edited by Peter Paret, then at Stanford University, was prepared in the early 1980s and subtitled From Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age. In that edition, three essays were reprinted from the earlier book, four others were revised, and the remainder-twenty-two essays-were wholly new, to reflect the updates in the field and also how the global political context had changed. The two books together are regarded as the founding and leading text in military and strategic studies, containing influential essays by many of the best-known scholars of the subject. The ambition of the new volume is to commission an entirely new edition of this classic reference work, with 37 chapters organized into 5 sections covering key military leaders and the most important elements of strategic thinking since Thucydides and Sun Tzu. The field of strategic and military history has witnessed an intellectual renaissance in recent decades, as the number of strategic challenges faced by the world has grown enormously. International politics has also changed. The Cold War ended and the Soviet Union disappeared. The United States entered a period of unipolarity, only to see it challenged by the rise of new powers, China in particular. Terrorism, civil wars, so-called "rogue states," insurgency and counter-insurgency, and cybersecurity all joined a growing list of strategic concerns. New technologies promise to upend our understanding of conflict. Furthermore, scholars have learned more about earlier periods, from the classic thinkers of strategy to the struggles of great power war to the dynamics of world politics during the Cold War. Finally, scholarship on international politics, war, and peace in the 20th century and after has become increasingly internationalized, with the opening of new archives and the incorporation of new perspectives. The aim of this volume is to serve as an overview and stimulant to research in this field, one that encompasses the broader definitions of strategy in current research, reflects the current state of world politics, and also takes a more global and less Western perspective"--Publisher's description. |
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Strategy.
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Military art and science.
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Military history, Modern.
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Strategy (OCoLC)fst01134406
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| Genre/Form |
History (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Brands, Hal, 1983- editor.
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Bew, John, contributor.
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Freedman, Lawrence, contributor.
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Mead, Walter Russell, contributor.
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Yoshihara, Toshi, contributor.
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Kroenig, Matthew, contributor.
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Strachan, Hew, contributor.
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Echevarria, Antulio J., II, 1959- contributor.
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Maurer, John H., contributor.
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Morgan, Michael Cotey, contributor.
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| Other Form: |
ebook version : Brands, Hal The New Makers of Modern Strategy Princeton : Princeton University Press,2023 9780691226729 |
| ISBN |
9780691204383 hardback |
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0691204381 hardback |
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9780691226729 ebook |
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