The power of the past : history and statecraft /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors:	Brands, Hal, 1983-, Suri, Jeremi
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2016]
Subjects:	United States > Foreign relations > Case studies. United States > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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.