Power of the Past

History and Statecraft

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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Leading scholars and policymakers explore how history influences foreign policy and offer insights on how the study of the past can more usefully serve the present.History, with its insights, analogies, and narratives, is central to the ways that the United States interacts with the world. Historians and policymakers, however, rarely engage one another as effectively or fruitfully as they might. This book bridges that divide, bringing together leading scholars and policymakers to address the essential questions surrounding the history-policy relationship including Mark Lawrence on the numerous, and often contradictory, historical lessons that American observers have drawn from the Vietnam War; H. W. Brands on the role of analogies in U.S. policy during the Persian Gulf crisis and war of 199091; and Jeremi Suri on Henry Kissinger's powerful use of history.

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Utgivningsdatum:2015-11-30
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:334
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780815727125

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Hal Brands is a Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).Jeremi Suri is the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a professor in the Department of History and the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.

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'Admittedly, there is no way for even the most accessible historian to prevent a politician from using history expediently. But, over time, policymakers’ history will only get better if historians provide more useful inspiration. This exceptional volume is a sober wake-up call.'- Russell Crandall and Wade Leach"In the last couple of years, with the success of populist parties in Europe, Brexit and the election of President Trump, history has been used not just as something to ‘learn from’ in order to ‘avoid repeating’ but also as an explanatory variable. Brands and Suri focus on the US case and show how representations of history, whether accurate or not (most often not), have been integral to American foreign policy-making." - Krisztina Csortea, International Affairs