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The power of the past : history and statecraft / Hal Brands and Jeremi Suri, editors.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2016]Description: vi, 327 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780815727125
  • 0815727127
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 973 23
Contents:
1. Introduction : thinking about history and foreign policy / Hal Brands and Jeremi Suri -- 2. Henry Kissinger, the study of history and the modern statesman / Jeremi Suri -- 3. Policymaking and the uses of the Vietnam War / Mark Atwood Lawrence -- 4. Neither Munich nor Vietnam : the Gulf War of 1991 / H. W. Brands -- 5. Narrating democracy : historical narratives, the Potsdam Declaration, and Japanese rearmament, 1945-1950 / Jennifer M. Miller -- 6. Containment : myth and metaphor / Thomas G. Mahnken -- 7. Grand strategy and petty squabbles : the paradox and lessons of the Reagan NSC / William Inboden -- 8. The ambiguities of humanitarian intervention / Michael Cotey Morgan -- 9. The shadow of white slavery : race, innocence, and history in contemporary anti-human trafficking campaigns / Gunther Peck -- 10. History, policymaking and the Balkans : lessons imported and lessons learned / James B. Steinberg -- 11. Looking forward through the past : the role of history in Bush White House national security policymaking / Peter Feaver and William Inboden -- 12. The nature of history's lessons / Philip Zelikow
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Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction : thinking about history and foreign policy / Hal Brands and Jeremi Suri -- 2. Henry Kissinger, the study of history and the modern statesman / Jeremi Suri -- 3. Policymaking and the uses of the Vietnam War / Mark Atwood Lawrence -- 4. Neither Munich nor Vietnam : the Gulf War of 1991 / H. W. Brands -- 5. Narrating democracy : historical narratives, the Potsdam Declaration, and Japanese rearmament, 1945-1950 / Jennifer M. Miller -- 6. Containment : myth and metaphor / Thomas G. Mahnken -- 7. Grand strategy and petty squabbles : the paradox and lessons of the Reagan NSC / William Inboden -- 8. The ambiguities of humanitarian intervention / Michael Cotey Morgan -- 9. The shadow of white slavery : race, innocence, and history in contemporary anti-human trafficking campaigns / Gunther Peck -- 10. History, policymaking and the Balkans : lessons imported and lessons learned / James B. Steinberg -- 11. Looking forward through the past : the role of history in Bush White House national security policymaking / Peter Feaver and William Inboden -- 12. The nature of history's lessons / Philip Zelikow