Robert Crowcroft is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary History at the University of Edinburgh, UK

This excellent volume should be on the desks of historians and the bedside tables of all decision-makers!

• Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements 1. IntroductionRobert Crowcroft 2. For All Time: History, Statesmanship, and the Primacy of Experience Robert Crowcroft 3. The Whig Way of War: the Origins of Anglo-American Strategy-MakingGiselle Donnelly 4. Carthage Can Now Defeat Rome: Political Order, Seaborne Commerce, and the Projection of Power in Barbon and MontesquieuPaul A. Rahe 5. Globalisation and World Order: Economic Integration and the Implications for Global Power, 1846-1914 and 1989-2021Graeme Thompson 6. Applying History to an Anomalous Historical Case: the Rise of ChinaKori Schake 7. Nation-Building as Applied History: Lessons from the United States in AfghanistanJeremi Suri 8. Applied History and Contingency Planning: Whitehall and the British War Book, c. 1911-1939Francesca Morphakis 9. “Longhaired Theoreticians” and Long-Term Thinkers: the Uses of History within the British Foreign Office during the Second World WarAndrew Ehrhardt 10. Problems Left Over from History: British Officials and Three Diplomatic ChallengesPeter Ricketts 11. Clio’s Role in Construing the US ConstitutionPhilip Bobbitt 12. Learning from Military HistoryJeremy Black 13. Beware of War: Lessons from the PastMargaret MacMillan 14. Serving History Hot: on Contemporary HistoryCharlie Laderman 15. When Reason Replaces Wisdom: How the Neglect of History and Statesmanship has Diminished Political ScienceSteven F. Hayward BibliographyIndex

Robert Crowcroft is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary History at the University of Edinburgh, UK

This excellent volume should be on the desks of historians and the bedside tables of all decision-makers!

• Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements 1. IntroductionRobert Crowcroft 2. For All Time: History, Statesmanship, and the Primacy of Experience Robert Crowcroft 3. The Whig Way of War: the Origins of Anglo-American Strategy-MakingGiselle Donnelly 4. Carthage Can Now Defeat Rome: Political Order, Seaborne Commerce, and the Projection of Power in Barbon and MontesquieuPaul A. Rahe 5. Globalisation and World Order: Economic Integration and the Implications for Global Power, 1846-1914 and 1989-2021Graeme Thompson 6. Applying History to an Anomalous Historical Case: the Rise of ChinaKori Schake 7. Nation-Building as Applied History: Lessons from the United States in AfghanistanJeremi Suri 8. Applied History and Contingency Planning: Whitehall and the British War Book, c. 1911-1939Francesca Morphakis 9. “Longhaired Theoreticians” and Long-Term Thinkers: the Uses of History within the British Foreign Office during the Second World WarAndrew Ehrhardt 10. Problems Left Over from History: British Officials and Three Diplomatic ChallengesPeter Ricketts 11. Clio’s Role in Construing the US ConstitutionPhilip Bobbitt 12. Learning from Military HistoryJeremy Black 13. Beware of War: Lessons from the PastMargaret MacMillan 14. Serving History Hot: on Contemporary HistoryCharlie Laderman 15. When Reason Replaces Wisdom: How the Neglect of History and Statesmanship has Diminished Political ScienceSteven F. Hayward BibliographyIndex

Robert Crowcroft is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary History at the University of Edinburgh, UK

This excellent volume should be on the desks of historians and the bedside tables of all decision-makers!

• Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements 1. IntroductionRobert Crowcroft 2. For All Time: History, Statesmanship, and the Primacy of Experience Robert Crowcroft 3. The Whig Way of War: the Origins of Anglo-American Strategy-MakingGiselle Donnelly 4. Carthage Can Now Defeat Rome: Political Order, Seaborne Commerce, and the Projection of Power in Barbon and MontesquieuPaul A. Rahe 5. Globalisation and World Order: Economic Integration and the Implications for Global Power, 1846-1914 and 1989-2021Graeme Thompson 6. Applying History to an Anomalous Historical Case: the Rise of ChinaKori Schake 7. Nation-Building as Applied History: Lessons from the United States in AfghanistanJeremi Suri 8. Applied History and Contingency Planning: Whitehall and the British War Book, c. 1911-1939Francesca Morphakis 9. “Longhaired Theoreticians” and Long-Term Thinkers: the Uses of History within the British Foreign Office during the Second World WarAndrew Ehrhardt 10. Problems Left Over from History: British Officials and Three Diplomatic ChallengesPeter Ricketts 11. Clio’s Role in Construing the US ConstitutionPhilip Bobbitt 12. Learning from Military HistoryJeremy Black 13. Beware of War: Lessons from the PastMargaret MacMillan 14. Serving History Hot: on Contemporary HistoryCharlie Laderman 15. When Reason Replaces Wisdom: How the Neglect of History and Statesmanship has Diminished Political ScienceSteven F. Hayward BibliographyIndex